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34 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Protagonist
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Hero
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Antagonist
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Anti-Hero
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Conflict
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Problem
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Rising Action
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Action increases till climax
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Resolution
- or - Denouement |
Bringing everything together
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Plot
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Story
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Setting
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Place
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Tone
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Mood
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Flashback
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Glimpse back or forward in time
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Metaphor
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Compare two things as each other
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Simile
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Like or As
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Personification
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Human traits in in non-human things
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Apostrophe
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Address to someone not present
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration
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Imagery
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Using sight
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Symbolism
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Using imagery to represent something else
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Allusion
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Reference to something else that relates to the plot
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Oxymoron
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A phrase that contradicts itself
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Irony
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Something that is the complete opposite of what it seems to be
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial sound
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds
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Consonance
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Repetition of consonant sounds
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Point of View
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I, s/he, it, you
In what person's perspective is the book is written |
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Parallelism
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Similar structure in a sentence
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Synesthesisia
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Combining senses (loud color, deafening silence)
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Deus ex Machina
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Unrealistic miracle (Machine of God)
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Archaic
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Out of use
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Willing suspension of Disbelief
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Belief in something extraordinary to keep the story moving
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Polysyndeton
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Absence of puncuations
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Asyndeton
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Absence of conjunctions
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Pejoration
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A word that originally meant something good, but became negative over time
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Unreliable Narrator
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Narrator interprets things wrong
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Versimilitude
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Something that is supposed to be one thing, but is cleary another thing for some people.
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Zeitgeist
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Capturing a time period or series of events
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