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37 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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Symbolic narrative in which characters have no individual personality, but embody moral qualities and abstractions
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
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Protagonist
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Main character of a literary work
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Antagonist
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Character or force against which another character struggles
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sound in a sentence of prose or poetry
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Characterization
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The means by which an author presents and reveals characters: speech, dress, dialogue, manners
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Narrator
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Voice and implied speaker of a fictional work
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Personification
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Endowment of animals or things with human or living qualities
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Connotation
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Associations beyond dictionary meaning
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Apostrophe
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Figure of speech in which an absent person or abstraction is addressed as they being present
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Metaphor
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Figure of speech where two unlike things are compared without the use of "as" or "like"
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Simile
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Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using "as" or "like"
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Hyperbole
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Figure of speech involving exaggeration
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Synecdoche
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Figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole
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Understatement
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Figure of speech in which author says less than he or she means
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Metonymy
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Figure of speech in which an attribute or closely related term is substituted for an object or an idea (ex: "Loyal to the Crown.")
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Litote
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Figure of speech indicating negative of opposite (ex: "not many")
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Antithesis
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Figure of speech containing two seemingly contradictory ideas within a balanced grammatical structure emphasized by parallelism
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Denotation
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Dictionary meaning of a word
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Figurative language
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Language that conveys something other than the literal meaning of the words
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Literal language
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Language that conveys exactly what the author means
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Subject
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What a play or story is about
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Plot
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Unified structure of events in a literary work
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Theme
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The idea of literary work extracted from its details of language, character, and action
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Point of view
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Angle or vision from which a story is narrated
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Exposition
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First stage of a plot in which background information is provided
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Complication
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Intensification of conflict in a story
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Climax
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Turning point of action in a plot; greatest point of tension
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Reversal
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Point in plot when action goes in an unexpected direction
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Foreshadowing
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Hints as to what is to come in a plot
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Falling action
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Point in a story after climax, moving toward denouement
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Denouement
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Resolution of a plot
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Recognition
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Point at which character understands his or her situation
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Flashback
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Interruption of a literary work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred priort to the timeframe of the work's action
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Resolution
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Sorting out of the plot and ending of a play
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Round character
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A character that may change and is realistic (usually a major character)
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Flat character
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Minor character that is defined more by audience's perconceptions, does not change
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