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55 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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A repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words.
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Allusion
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A reference to a famous person, place, event of work of literature
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Antagonist
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The bad guy; the force working against the protagonist
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Author's purpose
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The author's reason for creating a particular work; to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to give an opinion
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Autobiography
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Nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her own life.
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Biography
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The story of a person'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 the story is about
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Major Character
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A character 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 techniques writers use to create and develop characters.
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Chronological Order
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The order in which things happen in time.
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Climax
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In the plot of the story, the turning point or the most exciting 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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A from of language that is spoken in a certain place or by 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 pieces of information to make an inference
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Fable
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A brief story that teaches a lesson
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Fantasy
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A story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. They often involve 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 interruption of the action to 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 suggests 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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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration or overstatement
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Idiom
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An expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words
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Imagery
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Words and phrases that appeal to readers' senses
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Inferences
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Logical guess or conclusion based on evidence
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Irony
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A contrast 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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Narrative 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 suggest their meaning
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Parallelism
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The use of similar grammatical constructions to express 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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Introduces 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 pattern of rhymes in a poem,; 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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Stanza
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A paragraph within a poem
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Sterotype
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A generalization about a group of people
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Suspence
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Feeling 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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Tone
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The writer's attitude toward his subject
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