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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
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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
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Author's Purpose
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the auther's reason for creating
a particular work; to entertain, inform, persuade, and 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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Charactor
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a person, animal, or imaginary creature that a 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 the 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
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Conflict
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struggle between opposing forces
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Contrast
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pointing out differences between things
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Dialect
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a form of language that is spoken in a certain place or by a certain group of poeple
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Dialoge
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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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External conflict
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a charactor struggles against another charactor or an outside force
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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 endividual words
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Imagery
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words and phrases that appeal to reader's senses
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Internal Conflict
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struggle with a charactor
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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 contrast between what is expected and what actually exist 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 suggests their meaning
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Parrallelism
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the use of simiar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are equel 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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Rythme 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 paraghraph within a poem
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Stereotype
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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 thing that stands for something else
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Theme
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the message about life that is conveyed about a story
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Tone
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the writter's attitude toward his subject
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