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72 Cards in this Set
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Denotation |
Literal meaning of a word or phrase |
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Assonance |
Repetition of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables |
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Consonance |
Compatibility between opinions or actions |
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Allusion |
Bringing up something without mentioning it directly |
Shade |
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Irony |
Using a tone the opposite of what you're saying for humorous effect |
Awee muffin |
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Verbal irony |
Saying the opposite from the truth |
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Situational irony |
Expectation for something to happen but the opposite actually happens |
Plot twist |
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Dramatic irony |
Audience knows something the characters dont |
"Don't go in there" |
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Juxtaposition |
Two things different to each other places together with contrasting effect |
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Paradox |
Something absurd proving to be true |
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Metonymy |
Using different things to explain another thing |
And example |
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Synecdoche |
One thing representing a whole or vice versa |
A piece of pie represents the whole pie |
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Enjambment |
Continuing a sentence without a pause |
Rambling |
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Caesura |
Stopping near the middle of a line |
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Metaphor |
Not the literal meaning of an object or action |
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Simile |
Comparing one thing to a totally different thing |
Bravery = Lion |
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Hyperbole |
Something ridiculous and impossible |
Mile high ice cream cones |
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Personification |
Using language to give life and human characteristics to inanimate objects |
The brave little toaster |
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Repetition |
Repeating the same thing |
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Symbolism |
Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
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Imagery |
Visual descriptions |
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Cliche |
Phrase or opinion that is over used |
Fairytale |
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Mood |
Temporary state of mind |
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Tone |
A voice or sound expressing mood |
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Verisimilitude |
Appearance of being real or true |
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Plot |
Main events |
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Setting |
Where the story tales place |
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Foreshadowing |
Indication to future events |
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Flashback |
Remebering visually past events |
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Antecedent Action |
An event or action that happens before another |
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In Media Res |
Stopping in the. Middle of something |
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Theme |
Meaning or purpose of something |
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Direct characterization |
Author specifically revealing the personality of a character |
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Indirect characterization |
Character revealed through what other characters say, how said character acts, looks, and speaks |
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Flat character |
A character who doesn't change and not much is know about them |
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Round character |
Character who is complex and goes through many changes |
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Static character |
A character who undergoes little or no inner change |
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Dynamic character |
A character who goes through inner changes |
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Streotype/ Stock |
Oversimplified type of character |
Cliche type |
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First person |
Story told by main characters pov |
Diary |
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Second person |
POV where someone is telling the story but isn't in it address audience |
Slam poetry |
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Omniscient third person |
POV where the narrator knows everything all the characters are thinking and feeling |
God |
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Limited omniescent |
Knows what the protagonist is feeling and thinking |
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Objective third person |
Telling of the events the characters go through but not how they feel |
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Concrete |
constituting an actual thing or instance |
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Rhyming couplet |
Two lines the same length and that rhyme together which together complete one thought |
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Free verse |
Poetry that doesn't rhyme |
Slam poetry |
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Narritive |
A story |
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Parody |
Imitation of something real that is exagurated for comic effect |
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Rhyme scheme |
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
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Sonnet |
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. |
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Symbol |
A thing that represents something |
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Understatement |
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |
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Anecdote |
Short amusing story about a real thing |
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Antagonist |
Enemy to the protagonist |
Bad guy |
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Archetype |
a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. It can be the setting a character or theme |
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Connotation |
Finding the symbol in something |
How we annotate |
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Crisis |
Something horrible and chaotic |
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Deus ex machina |
Something that comes out of no where and helps the hero save the day |
Plot twist |
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Diction |
Words the author chooses to use |
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Character foil |
Character who is the opposite of another character |
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Exposition |
Device used in literature to give background information on the story |
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Denouement |
Evidence laced together mystery solved |
Near the end of the story when all the pieces come together |
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Prose |
Language spoken and writing in it's original form |
It is |
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Suspense |
Uncertainty |
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Aside |
Audience hears what the character says but the other characters dont |
When a villain talks to themselves but the hero can't hear |
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Soliloquy |
Speaking thoughts out loud |
Talking to self |
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Motif |
Repeating a symbol |
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Cliche |
Something that is over done |
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Satire |
Making fun of something political |
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Parallelism |
Parts of the sentence are grammatically the same or similar in structure |
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Alliteration |
Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of an adjacent |
Tongue twister |
