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32 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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the author's selection of arangement of incidents in a story to shape the actions and give the story focus (what happens and why)
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Point of View
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the way the events in a story are conveyed to the reader
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First Person
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when it is written using I, Me, We (the narrator is also a character in the story)
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Third Person Omniscient
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the narrator can get into every characters thoughts
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Conflict
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the main problem
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Setting
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time, place, and physical details
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Theme
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common thread or repeated idea seen throughout a work of lit. often deep, difficult to understand
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Personification
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attributing buman qualities to non-human objects, animals, ideas etc...
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Tone
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the author's implict attitude towards the reader, events, of the novel, characterists, etc...
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Metaphor
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Direct comparison of two thing saying one is unlike the other
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Simile
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a direct comparison of two things (unlike) using like or as
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Irony
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how a person, situation, statement or circumstance is not how it seems or the exact opposite of what appears
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symbolism
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the use of a work or object to stand for as idea or theme
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motif
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a reoccuring object (squril in ice age)
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allusion
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a refrence to a previous work of literature with in a work or literature
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flashback
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a break in the narrative order to inform readers of something that happened prior to the beginning of the novel
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climax
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the most exciting point of the story (what the rising action leads up to)
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connotation
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feeling or association that a word invokes
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protagonist
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the main character; the one we cheer for
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antagonist
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the one in conflict with the main character
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foreshadowing
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a "hint" about something that has yet to happen
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hyperbole
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extreme exaggeration for effect
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foil
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a character that is used to accentuate/emphasize the personality traits of another character
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parallelism
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a repetition of a sentence using the same structure
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synonyms
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different words with similar meanings
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antonyms
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words with opposite meanings
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genre
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a grouping of literary works through the time in which they were written, their style
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allegory
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a story illustrating a moral principal in which objects take on symbolic meaning
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parody
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a literary work that imitates another literary work through exaggeration of its style, meaning etc...
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imagery
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writing that appeals to the sences
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Archetype
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a basic plot, character or symbol or idea that recurs in the literature of many cultures
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In Medias Res
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in the middle of things
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