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21 Cards in this Set
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protagonist
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The main character in a drama or other literary work.
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setting
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the surroundings in which something is set; scene
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conflict
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a struggle or clash between opposing forces
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motif
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A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
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imagery
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The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
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personification
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the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc., as for literary or artistic effect
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myth
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A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal
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chronological order
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listing by time, earliest to latest.
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Author's purpose
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An author’s purpose is his or her main reason for writing
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
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analogy
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drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
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repetition
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the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
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theme
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the unifying subject or idea of a story
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated.
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paradox
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an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition
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allusion
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a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context
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aphorism
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expresses a general truth in a pithy sentence
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autobiography
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a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer
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characterization-direct/indirect
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direct: the method of character development in which the author simply tells what the character is like
indirect: a character is developed through actions and reactions |
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irony (verbal,situational,dramatic)
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verbal: a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
situational: an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected dramatic: irony that results when characters say or do something of greater significance than they realize. The audience’s knowledge is superior to that of the character |
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universal themes
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the statement the author is trying to get to the reader or the message of the book for the audience
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