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25 Cards in this Set
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Active reading |
Reading in an active, participatory way rather than just passively going over words on a page. Working at making meaning out of the printed word. |
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Active voice |
A way of using a verb whereby the subject of the sentence is doing an action |
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Aerial shot |
A photograph taken from a plane, crane, or helicopter |
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Alliteration |
The practice of repeating a sound at the beginnings of a series of words or a consonant that isn't necessarily at the beginnings |
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Allusion |
A reference, explicit or implicit, to something or someone with which a text creator assumes the audience will be familiar —often a historical, literary, or mythological person or event |
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Antagonist |
The force a protagonist must overcome to achieve his or her want, need or goal. |
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Apostrophe |
The addressing of a thing, place, idea, or absent person as if present and able to understand |
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Archetype |
A pattern that appears repeatedly in literature |
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Artistic unity |
The quality of a text whereby every element is essential to convey the author's propose |
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Aside |
A short speech in a play that is heard only by the audience, not the characters |
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Base rhythm |
The metre that occurs most frequently in a poem |
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Bathos |
The trite, sentimental results of a writer's out artist's failure to achieve pathos |
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Black humor |
Humor derived from topics usually considered morbid or inappropriate for purposes of joking |
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Blank verse |
Poetry written in unrhyming iambic pentameter |
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Body language |
The gestures, expressions, and postures by which people, consciously or unconsciously, send messages to others |
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Cacophony |
The effect created by sounds that are dissonant or harsh |
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Cadence |
A sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates a rhythm |
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Caesura |
A strong pause in a poetic line, sometimes signaled by punctuation, but having no impact on the metre |
Julius pauses on a metre stick |
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Catastrophe |
The point in a tragedy where disaster strikes and the protagonist dies |
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catharsis |
The purification of the emotions by way of release and renewal |
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Character foil |
The character in a work of fiction whose traits contrast noticeably with those of another character thereby emphasizing that other characters traits |
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Characters |
The people or animals or some form of animate creatures who participate in the events of a work of fiction |
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Cinematography |
Motion picture photography |
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Climax |
The great turning point of a work of fiction; the point of highest tension |
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Closed form poetry |
The opposite of open for more free verse poetry; poetry that relies on an established pattern of rhythm and/or rhyme |
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