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25 Cards in this Set
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Theme |
The central message of a literary work - the point |
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Setting |
When or where a story takes place |
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Characterization |
Describing what a character is like and what they do/ role they play in the story - gets to the heart of who they are |
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Plot |
sequence of events in a literary work |
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Conflict |
A struggle between opposing forces - states the problem clearly |
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Internal Conflict |
Struggle that occurs inside of the mind of a character |
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External Conflict |
Struggle that occurs between 2 characters or between the characters in nature |
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Mood |
A feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
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Narrator |
A speaker or characteristic who tells the story |
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Autobiography |
The story of a person's life written by that person |
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Biography |
The story of a person's life written by someone else |
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Fig lang. |
Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
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Literal Lang. |
Stated meaning |
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Metaphor |
When one thing is described as if it were another |
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Speaker |
Voice that's assumed by the writer or a poem; an invented char. that tells the poem |
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Simile |
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
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Repetition |
The repeating of a word or phrase in order to make a point |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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Onomatopoeia |
The use of words that imitate the sounds that they stand for |
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Personification |
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration |
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Prose |
Ordinary speech or writing that does not have a regular rhythm |
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Verse |
A single line of poetry |
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Stanza |
Group of lines of poetry. usually similar in length and separated by spaces |
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Symbolism |
When one object or person stands for or represents something else |
