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42 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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a work in which every character or detail is understood to be a metaphor for something else
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Stage direction
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the playwright dictates details on placement of various things on the stage
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First person
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a character who participates in the action of the story or novel and refers to himself and his actions.
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Description
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The author may describe a character's physical appearance, voice, gestures in great detail
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Irony
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is found in statements contrary to reality or opposite to expectations
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Complication
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Introduces the conflict or problem
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Diction
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What a character says to and about others and what others say to and about that character reveal a great deal.
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Narrator
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The teller of the story
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Point of view
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the method through which the author tells/narrates the work
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Persona
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an invented character to narrate
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Theme
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the author's message about life, people, and society
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exposition
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introduces the background information
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Personification
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the writer describes an inanimate object as if it were alive or an animal as if it were human.
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climax
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the highest intesity or interest or action in the plot, and it may also be the turning point.
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conflict
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struggle faced by the protagonist
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Effaced narrator
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Not a character in the story does not share any characters' thoughts
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Dialect
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how the author shows the pronunciation
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Dialogue
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refers to two people speaking to one another
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Characterization
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how the author reveals and develops his or her characters for the reader.
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Aside
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made by a character who is on stage with other characters but is not heard by the other characters.
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Internal conflict
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when the protagonist's cheif conflict, or struggle faced by the protagonist, is within himself
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Setting
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Where the story takes place
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Motivation
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the reason for a character's attitudes and behaviors
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Soliloquy
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an extended speech in which a character alone on the stage and speaks his or her thoughts aloud
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Drama
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form of literature intended to be watched
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Plot
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The plot is the series of related events which occur within the work of literature
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Allusion
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an implied reference to another person, real or fictional, or to an event in history or in literature or to a specific work of literature or art.
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foreshadowing
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clues that hint the readers on how the book will end
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Symbolism
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the use of physical details to represent more significant concrete phenomena
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Protagonist
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the protagonist is the main character or hero of the work
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Metaphor
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the writer describes one thing with terms or characteristics associated with something else, making one thing be the other thing
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foil
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A foil is a character who reveals information about the protagonist by opposing him or by behaving in a contrasting manor.
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Character
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The people in the works of literature
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Limited Omniscient
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Not a character in the story, reveals the thoughts of only one character
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Antagonist
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is the chief opponent or obstacle faced by the protagonist.
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external conflict
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A conflict between the protagonist and a being or force outside himself
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Simile
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comparison which contains like or as
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Omniscient
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not a character in the story and reveals the thoughts of more than one of those characters
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Resolution/denouement
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explains what happens to the characters after the climax, the wrapping up the sitution
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Figurative Language
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several different ways writers make comparisons in order to clarify or expand their meanings and to generate intellectual or emotional responses in the readers.
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Analogy
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a writer explains a difficult concept by comparing it to a more familiar concept.
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stock character
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familiar types who are recognized by obvious or exaggerated characteristics
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