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55 Cards in this Set
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Allitaeration
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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 aginst the protagonist
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Author's purpose
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the author's reason for creating a particular work; 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, writtern 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 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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chronoloical 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 characdter 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 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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Imagivative; 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 experssion that has a meaning of its endividual words
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imagery
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words and pharses that appeal to readers' senses
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inference
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logical guess or conclustion 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 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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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 characterl 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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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 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 attiude toward his subject
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