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57 Cards in this Set
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Fiction |
Prose writing that tells you about imaginary characters and events |
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Non-Fiction |
Prose writing that presents and explains idea that tell about real people, events, ideas, and places |
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Poetry |
Concise writings that include imagery, firgurative language, sound devices, and rhyme schemes |
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Narrative |
A fictional story; usually in novel or short story form |
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Drama |
A story written to be performed by actors |
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Plot |
The sequence of events in a literary work |
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Setting |
The time, location,era, and atmosphere a literary work is set in |
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Point of Veiw |
The perspective a story is told from |
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Exposition |
The beginning of a story that introduces the setting, the characters, and the basic situation |
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Rising Action |
The events leading up to the climax |
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Climax |
The highest point of suspense in a story, novel, or play |
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Falling action |
The events falling the climax |
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Resolution/Denouement |
The conclusion which often leads to a general insight or change for character |
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Conflict |
The struggle between the opposing forces in story |
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Internal Conflict |
The struggle the main character was within; this could be a moral or ethical dilemna |
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External Conflict |
The struggle between the main character and an outside force; this could be struggle against another character, nature, or society |
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Internal Monologue |
The inner thoughts and dialogue of character |
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Character |
A firgue (human or animal) who takes part in the action of a literary work |
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Round Character |
A character with many traits, faults, and virtues |
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Flat Character |
A character with only one side or trait |
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Dynamic Character |
A character that develops and changes over yge course of a story |
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Static Character |
A character that does not change of the course of a story |
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Direct Characterization |
The author directly states a character's traits |
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Indirect Characterization |
The author tells what a character looks like, does, and says; could also include how other characters react to a character |
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Protangonist |
The main character of a literary work |
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Antagonist |
The character of force in conflict with the main character or protagonist; sometimes this is the villain |
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Foreshadowing |
Clues that create suspense in story |
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Tone |
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience |
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Mood |
Literary element that evokes certian feelings or vibes in the readers through words and descriptions |
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Symbol |
Anything that stands for or represents something else |
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Theme |
A central message or insight revealed through literary work |
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Motif |
A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition |
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Slang |
A type of language that consist of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people |
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Dialect |
A particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific regiom or social group |
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Firgurative language |
Terms found in writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
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Personification |
Firgurative language that gives human qualities to nonhuman subjects |
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Similie |
Firgue of speech using like or as to compare |
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Metaphor |
A comparison of two unlike things highlighting similarities |
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Idiom |
Is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a firgurative, or sometimed literal, meaning |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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Hyperbole |
A deliberate exaggerstion or overstatement |
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Cliché |
A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words that imitate sounds |
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Pun |
A humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words |
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Allusion |
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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Epithet |
An adjective or description phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned |
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Epic poem |
An epic poem is a long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet |
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In Media Res |
Latin for "into the middle of things"; it usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somehwere in the middle- usually at some crucial point in the action |
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Epic (Homeric) Similie |
An extended simile thats is used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject |
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Tragedy |
A play dealing with tragic events and having and unhappy ending, especially one corning the downfall of the main character |
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Dialogue |
The conversation between characters in a novel, drama, or other literary work |
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Stage Directions |
A playing deal with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, epsecially one concerning the downfall of the main character |
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Aside |
A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play |
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Monolongue |
A speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience |
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Soliloquy |
A speech presented by a single character, most often to express their emtioms; usually alone on stage |
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Act |
An act is a part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax and resolution. A scene is a part of an act defined with the changing of characters |
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Scene |
A division of an act in a play during which the action takes place in a single place without a break in time |
