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55 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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A repetition of a sound or letter at the begining of words
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allusion
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A reference to a famous person,place,event or work of literature
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antagonist
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The bad guy; the force working against the protagonist
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author's purpose
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The author's reason for creating a particular work;to entertain, to inform,to persuade, to give an opinion
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autobiography
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Nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her own life
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biography
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The story of a person's life, written by someone else
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cause
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Why an event happens
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effect
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What happens(follows the cause)
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character
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Person,animal,or imaginary creature that a story is about
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major character
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A character the story is mainly about
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minor character
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Less important charcter
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characterization
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All the techniques writers use to create and develope characters
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chronological order
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The order in which things happen in time
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climax
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In the plot of the story, the turning piont or tyhe most exciting part
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conflict
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Struggle between opposing forces
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internal conflict
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Struggle within a character
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external conflict
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A character struggles against another character or an outside force
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contrast
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Pionting out differences between things
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dialect
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A form of language that is spoken ina certain plance or by a certain group of people
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dialogue
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The words that characters speak aloud
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drawing conclusions
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Combining serveral pieces of information to make an inference
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fable
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A brief story that teaches a lesson
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fantasy
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A story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. They often involve magic or characters with superhuman powers
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fiction
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Imaginative; not true
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flash back
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An interruption of the action to present a scene that took place at an earlier time
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foreshadowing
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A writer provides a hint that suggest future events in a story
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free verse
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Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm
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hyperbole
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exaggeration or overstatement
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idiom
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An expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its endividual words
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imagery
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Words and phrases that appeal to readers' senses
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inference
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Logical guess or conclusion based on evidence
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irony
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A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens
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metaphore
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A comparison of two things that have some quality in common
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mood
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Is a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers; atmosphere
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narrative poetry
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Poetry that tells a story
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narrator
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The teller of the story
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nonfiction
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Writing that tells about real people,places,and events
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onomatopoeia
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The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning
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parrallelism
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The use of similar grammatical construtions to express ideas that are equal in importance
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personification
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The giving of human qualities to an animal,object,or idea
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plot
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The sequence of events that makeup the story
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exposition
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Introduces the charactera and establishes the main idea
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piont of view
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Perspective
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Protagonist
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The main character; good guy
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repetition
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Using a sound word or phrase more than once
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rhyme scheme
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A pattern of rhymes in a poem; uses the same letter for lines that rhyme
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rhythm
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The beat of the poem
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simile
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comparison of two things using like or as
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speaker
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In a poem, the voice that talks to the reader
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stanza
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a paragraph within a poem
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stereotype
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a generalization about a group of people
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suspence
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Feeling of growing tension and excitement
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symbol
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A person,place, or object that stands for something else
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theme
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The message about life that is conveyed by a story
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tone
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The writers attitude toward his subject
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