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22 Cards in this Set
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flat character
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a character constructed around a single idea or quality
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Dynamic character
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changes, grows, multi-dimensional
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mood
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an atmosphere created by a writer's word choice and the details selected
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point of view
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The perspective from which a fictional or non-fictional story is told
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round character
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A character drawn with sufficient complexity to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility
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tone
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A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction
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Epiphany
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A major characters moment of realization or awareness
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foil
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A character whose traits are the opposite of another
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Irony
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When a reader is aware of the reality that differs from my character's perception of reality
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dramatic irony
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When the reader is aware of an inconsistency between a fictional or non-fictional characters perception of the situation and the truth of that situation
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situational irony
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applies to work which contain elaborate expressions of the ironic spirit
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verbal irony
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when the reader is aware of a discrepancy between the real meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the writer's word
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personal
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a writer often adopts a fictional voice to tell a story
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antithesis
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a balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses
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apostrophe
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an address to the dead as if living
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asyndeton
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a series of words separated by commas
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chiasmus
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arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of XYYX
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epithet
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A term used to characterize a person or thing
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hyperbole
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conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect
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oxymoron
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a rhetorical antithesis. juxtaposing two contradictory terms
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alliteration
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The repetition at close intervals of initial identical constant sounds
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assonance
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repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity.
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