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54 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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A repetion of sound or letter at the beginning of words
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Allusion
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A referenc3 to a famous person place event of work of literation
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Antagonist
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hte bad guy the force working against the proagonist
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author's purpose
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the author's reason for creating a particular work
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Autobiography
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nonfiction in witch a person tell tell a story anout there own life
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Biography
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the story of aperson's life written by someone else
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Cause
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why an event happens
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Effect
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what happens(follows the cause)
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Character
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person, animal, or imaginary creature that a story is about
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Major Character
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a cgaracter the story is mainly about
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Minor Character
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a less important character
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Characterization
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all the techniques writers use to create and devlop characters
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Chronological order
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the order in witch things happen in time
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Climax
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IN PLOT OF THE STORY, THE TURNING POINT OR THE MOST EXITING PART
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CONFLICT
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Struggle between opposing forces
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internal conflict
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struggle within a character
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External conflict
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a character struggles against another character or an outside force
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contrast
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pointing out differences between things
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dialect
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form of langue that is spoken in a certain group of people
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dialogue
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the words that characters speak aloud
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drawing conclusions
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combining several poeces of information to make inference
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fable
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a brief story that teaches a lesson
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fansty
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a story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. They often invole magic or characters with superhuman powers
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fiction
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Imaginative; not true
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flashback
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an interrupion of the action tp present a scene that took place at an earlier time
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foreshadowing
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a writer provides a hint that suggeats future events in a story
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Free verse
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poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm
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hyperboole
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exaggereation or overstatement
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idiom
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an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its endividual words
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imagery
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words and phrases that appeal to readers' senses
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inference
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logical guess or conclusion based on evidence
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irony
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a contrasr between what is expected and what actually exists or happens.
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metaphor
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a comparison of two things that have some quality in common
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mood
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is a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers; atmosphere
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narrator poetry
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poetry that tells a story
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narrator
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the teller of the story
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Nonfiction
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Writing that tells about real people,places, and events
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning
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parrallelism
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the use of similar grammatical to ezpress ideas that are equal in importance
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personification
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the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
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plot
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the sequence of events that make up the story
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exposition
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introduce the characters and establishes the main idea
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point of view
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perspective
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protagonist
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the main character; good guy
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repetition
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using a sound word or phrase more than once
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rhyme scheme
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a patteren of rhymes in a peme; uses the same letter for lines that rhyme
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rhythm
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the beat of the poem
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simile
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comparison of two things using like or as
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speaker
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in a poem, the voice that talks to the reader
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stanze
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a paragraph within a poem
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sterrotype
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a generalization about a group of people
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suspence
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fellling of growing tension and excitement
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symbol
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a person, place, or object that stands for something else
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theme
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the message about life that is conveyed by a story
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