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30 Cards in this Set
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A reason that explains or partially explains why a character thinks, feels., acts, or behaves in a certain way.
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Motivation
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The passing of songs, stories, and poems from generation to generation by word of mouth.
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Oraltradition
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A figure of speech in which "like" or "as" is used to make a comparision.
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Simile
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THe use of any element of language more than once.
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Repetition
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A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work.
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Theme
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Notes included in drama to discribe how the work is to be formed on stage.
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Stage Directions
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The main character in literary work.
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Protagonist
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A fictional tale that explains the actionds of gods or the cause of natural phenomena.
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Myth
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A category or type of literature.
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Genre
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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
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Metaphor
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A foot with two stong stresses as in the word "spacewalk".
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Spondee
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A long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heros.
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Epic
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Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
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Fiction
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A struggle between opposing characters.
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Conflict.
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A word's dictonary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have.
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Denotation
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Word choice.
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Diction
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A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter.
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Couplet
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The set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning.
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Connotation
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The feeling created in the reader by a literary word or passage.
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Mood
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Any events that occur after the resoultion.
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Denouement
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A long work of fiction with a plot that explores characters in conflict.
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Novel
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A poem that tells a story.
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Narrative poem
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The time and place of the story.
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Seting
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A work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.
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Tragedy
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A formal division of lines in apoem, considered as a unit.
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Stanza
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A feeling or curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in literary work.
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Suspense
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Prose writing that presents and expains ideas ot that tells about real people, places, objects, or events.
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Nonfiction
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The sequence of events in a litarty work.
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Plot
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Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life.
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Fantasy
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The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants.
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Assonanace
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