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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 or 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 imagainary 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 writters use to create and develop character.
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chronolocical 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 oposing 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 form of language that is spoken ina certain plance or by a certain group or 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 imagainary world. They often involve magic or characters with superhuman powers
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Fiction
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Imagainary; 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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exagerration or overstatement
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Idiom
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an experssion that has a meaning differnt 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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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 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; atomosphere
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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 similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are equal in importance
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Personifiction
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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 apoem, 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 or people
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suspence
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feeling or 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 tha is conveyed by a story
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tone
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the writter's attitude toward his subject
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