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19 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
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Alliteration
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The repetition of of a sound at the beginning in the middle or at the end of words
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Allusion
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A reference to a person place or event or an artistic work that the author expects a reader to recognize
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Antagonist
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The force or character a posing the protagonist
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Archetype
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A typical example of a type of person or thing
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Conflict
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The struggle between the opposing forces in the novel
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Connotation
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The words asociacion with an emotion
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Dramatic Irony
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When the reader knows something the character does not
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Dystopia
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An imagined place where everything is bad and typically totalitarian
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Imagery
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The language that creates an image in the
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readers mind
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two unlike things
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Personification
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A figure of speech in which nonhuman object is given lifelike characteristics
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Point of view
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The vantage point from which a story is told
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Protagonist
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The main character in a literary work
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symbol
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A person place or thing that suggests something larger
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Theme
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The main idea of a literary work
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Tone
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The writers attitude toward his subject
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Topic
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The broad subject of a piece of literature
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Heuristic
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a method of problem solving that is not scientific
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