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72 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
Compares 2 things using "like" or "as" |
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Metaphor |
Compares 2 things without using "like" or "as" |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowels to create rhymes |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of consonants to create effect, tone, or mood |
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Personification |
Giving an object, idea, or animal human traits |
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Protagonist |
Central, leading character in the story |
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Antagonist |
Character/s that oppose the leading or central character |
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Foreshadowing |
Hints at what is unfolding in the story |
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Oxymoron |
2 opposing words placed side by side to create effect |
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Suspense |
Feeling of fascination, excitement and fear, apprehension or tension |
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Allusion |
Brief and indirect reference to a person, historical event, cultural event, political event, or idea |
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Diction |
The words and sentences an author uses to craft their work |
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Red herring |
A misleading clue. An event or character intended to divert the reader away from a significant or important piece of the plot |
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Hyperbole |
An exaggeration of an idea |
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Understatement |
Deliberately makes a situation less important/serious |
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Pun |
Humorous play on words to suggest more than one meaning |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word that resembles a sound |
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Point of View |
The perspective from which an author writes the story |
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First Person |
A POV using words I or We |
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Second Person |
A POV using the word You |
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Third Person Omniscient |
A POV using the words he/she/they, narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of others |
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Third Person Limited |
A POV using he/she/they, narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of themselves/one person in the story |
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Analogy |
Comparing 2 objects for the purpose of explaining something |
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Imagery |
Vivid words and descriptions to help the reader create an image in their mind |
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Symbol |
An object that stands for/represents an idea, belief or action |
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Theme |
Central topic or theme of the text |
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Flat/Static Character |
Minor character, does not undergo change, one dimensional, no emotional depth |
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Round Character |
A character with a complex personality and clear human traits |
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Dynamic Character |
A complex character, undergoes significant change |
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Foil |
Character that attempts to prevent another character from success |
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Setting |
The location and time frame in which the narrative takes place |
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Irony |
Intended words that have different meaning than what is actually said |
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Dramatic Irony |
Audience knows more about the situation (past, present, future) than the characters themselves |
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Literal Language |
The most obvious and straightforward production of the text (no hidden meanings) |
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Figurative Language |
Language that uses several different literary devices, open to interpretation |
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Apostrophe |
Addressing some abstraction/personification that is not physically present |
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Antithesis |
Using opposite phrases in close conjunction |
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Anastrophe |
Inverted word order/event order as a rhetorical scheme |
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Anticlimax |
A drop of a dignified or important idea (often ridiculous/humorous) |
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Archetype |
Universal symbol |
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Blank Verse |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter - 10 lines that don't rhyme, even numbers accented |
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Burlesque |
Ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial |
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Ceasura |
A pause (by a slash or comma) |
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Chiasmus |
Taking parallelism and turning it inside out |
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Catastrophe |
The "turning downward" of a plot in a tragedy (mostly 4th act after the climax) |
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Catharsis |
Events that bring about a moral or spiritual renewal |
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Cliche |
A phrase that has become overused |
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Connotation |
What words mean past the literal definition |
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Consonance |
Type of alliteration where the consonants stay the same (vowels change) |
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Denotation |
What words mean in the dictionary |
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Denouement |
The outcome after a string of complex events |
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Exposition |
Telling, not showing |
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Free Verse |
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter |
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Metonymy |
Using an object to embody a general idea |
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Motif |
A recurring element that appears frequently in works of literature |
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Paradox |
A contradiction that oddly makes sense |
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Parallelism |
When there are similar patterns of grammatical structure and length |
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Persona |
An external representation of oneself |
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Quatrain |
A stanza of 4 lines |
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Rhyme Royal |
7 lines, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme |
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Sarcasm |
Saying one thing and meaning another |
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Scansion |
The art of scanning poetry to determine its meter |
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Satire |
Criticism or an attack on something that the author doesn't agree with/sees as stupid |
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Soliloquy |
Speech given by a character that believes to be alone. What the character says is what they are truly thinking |
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Sestet |
6 line rhyme with a varying pattern |
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Sprung Rhythm |
Accentual rhythm, accent falls in the first syllable of every foot |
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Spenserian Stanza |
9 line stanza, first 8 lines are pentameter and the last line is alexandrine |
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Stock Character |
Appears in a particular literary genre |
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Strophe |
A stanza sung aloud, alternating with the antistrophe |
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Synecdoche |
A part of an object representing the whole |
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Tarzan Rima |
3 line stanza, form with interlocking rhymes moving from one stanza to another (ABA BCB CDC) |
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Zuegma |
Using a single verb to defer to 2 different objects in a way that is unusual |
