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30 Cards in this Set
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Periodic Sentence
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Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements - e.g. "Across the stream, beyond the clearing, from behind a fallen a tree, the lion emerged."
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Persona
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A writer often adopts a fictional voice to tell a story. This is usually determined by a combination of subject matter and audience
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Personification
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Figurative Language in which inanimate objects, animals, ideas, or abstractions are endowed with human traits or human form
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Plot
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System of actions represented in a dramatic or narrative work
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Point of View
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The perspective from which a fictional or nonfictional story is told. First-person, or third-person, or third-person omniscient are commonly used.
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Protagonist
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Chief character in a dramatic or narrative work, usually trying to accomplish some objective or working toward some goal
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Pun
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A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings
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Red Herring
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Device through which a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue
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Repetition
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Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity
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Rhetoric
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The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse. Rhetoric focuses on the interrelationship of invention, arrangement, and style in order to create discourse.
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Rhetorical Question
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A question asked to emphasize a point; no answer is expected
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Round Character
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A character drawn with sufficient complexity to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility
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Satire
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A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as with invective) or get personal (as with sarcasm). It usually targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals; its purpose is customarily to inspire change.
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Sarcasm
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A type of verbal irony in which, under the guise of praise, a caustic and bitter expression of strong and personal disapproval is given. Sarcasm is personal, jeering, and intended to hurt.
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Setting
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Locale and period in which the action takes place
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Similie
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A figurative comparison of two things, often dissimilar, using the connecting word: "like," "as," or "then."
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Situational Irony
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When the audience expects one outcome and gets another.
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Soliloquy
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When a character in a play speaks his thoughts aloud - usually by him or herself
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Stock Character
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Conventional character types that recur repeatedly in various literary genres. E.g. the wicked stepmother or Prince Charming
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Stream of Consciousness
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Technique of writing that undertakes to reproduce the raw flow of consciousness, with the perceptions, thoughts, judgements, feelings, associations, and memories presented just as they occur without being tidied into grammatical sentences or given logical and narrative order.
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Style
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The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. In combination they create a work's manner of expression. This is thought to be conscious and unconscious and may be altered to suit specific occasions.
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Symbol
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A thing, event, or person that represents or stands for some idea or event. Symbols also simultaneously retain their own literal meanings. A figure of speech in which a concrete object is used to stand for an abstract idea
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Synechdoche
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Part of something is used to stand for the whole - e.g. "threads" for clothes; "wheels" for cars
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Syntax
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In grammar, the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship.
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Theme
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A central idea of a work of fiction or nonfiction, revealed and developed in the course of a story or explored through argument
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Tone
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A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization of the sentence and global levels
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Tragedy
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Representations of serious actions which cause pity and fear in the viewer
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Tragic Flaw
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Tragic error in judgement; a mistake act which changes the fortune of the tragic hero from happiness to misery; also known as hamartia.
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Understatement
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Deliberately representing something as much less likely that it really is
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Verbal Irony
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When the reader is aware of a discrepancy between the real meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the writer's words.
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