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51 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote A&P?
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John Updike
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Who wrote A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote Animal Farm?
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George Orwell
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Who wrote "The Catbird Seat"?
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James Thurber
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Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
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William Golding
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Who wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
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Ray Bradbury
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Who wrote "Metaphors"?
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Silvia Plath
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Who wrote The Most Dangerous Game?
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Richard Connell
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Who wrote The Odyssey?
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Homer
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Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Harper Lee
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What is a Plot?
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The Sequence of Events
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What is the Rising Action?
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The Complications leading to the climax.
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What is the denouement?
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When the story dissolves, the problem is resolved.
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What is a resolution?
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the outcome of the story.
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What is characterization?
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traits of certain characters.
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What are four ways to develop a character?
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1. actions
2.exposition:descriptive writing 3.thoughts 4. dialogue |
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What is the tone?
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the attitude that the author adopts
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What is the setting?
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the time and place of the story.
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What is a symbol?
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a person, place of thing that is used to represent something else
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What is a theme?
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The message the author is conveying. (never one word)
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What is the point of view?
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the perspective in which the story is told.
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What is first person point of view?
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when the narrator is a participant. (uses I)
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What is Second Person point of view?
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when the reader is involved. (uses you)
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What is third person point of view?
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When the narrator isn't involved.
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What is omniscient point of view?
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The narrator knows all thoughts.
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What is personification?
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When a non-human things are given human characteristics.
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What is a simile?
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A comparison between two unlike things using like, as or seems.
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What is a metaphor?
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A direct comparison between two unlike things without using like, as or seems.
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What is a hyperbole?
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An extreme exaggeration.
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What is foreshadowing?
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hints or clues as to what happens next in the story
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What is conflict?
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A struggle between two opposing forces.
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What are the 4 types of conflict?
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1. man vs. nature
2. man vs. society 3. man vs. man 4. man vs. self |
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What is the protagonist?
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The leading character, or hero of a piece of literary work.
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What is the antagonist?
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The character who struggles against the protagonist
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What is Parallelism?
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An arrangement in which one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased.
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What is a Story of Initiation?
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a short story depicting a decisive incident that launches a character into a higher state of awareness, whether for better of for worse.
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What is an Epiphany?
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A term that is used to designate an event in which the essential nature of something- a person, a situation, an object is suddenly perceived.
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What is a Foil?
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Any character that through contrast or parallelism underscore, or heightens the distinctive characteristics of another.
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What is denotation?
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A word that signifys something important.
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What is connotation?
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Intellectual and emotional images that are associated with a word
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What is an epithet?
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a descriptive name that contains a characteristic of a person, that is used instead of a name.
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What is Abstract?
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Expressing a quality or characteristic apart from concrete realities. ex. justice or goodness
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What is an Allusion?
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An indirect or casual reference.
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Dystopia
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Present trends are carried out to their worst culminations
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Empathy
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The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
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Juxtaposition
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Placing of items side by side for comparison
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Microcosm
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A small scale representation of a society with analogies to a larger system
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Stanza
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Paragraphs of a poem
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Story of Initiation
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The character develops over the course of the story
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Sympathy
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To understand the feelings of another
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Utopia
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A perfect ideal world
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