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50 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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REPETITION OF THE SAME OR VERY SIMILAR CONSONANT SOUNDS usually at the begininning of words that are close in a poem
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Allusion
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REFERENCE to a statement, a person, a place, or event from literature, history, myths, politics, science, or pop culture
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Analogy
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COMPARISON made between two things to show how they are alike
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Autobiography
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE WRITER'S OWN LIFE
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Biography
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AN ACCOUNT OF A PERSON'S LIFE, WRITTEN OR TOLD BY ANOTHER PERSON
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Character
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person in a story, poem, or play
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Characterization
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the process of revealing a character's personality in a story
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Chronology
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List of things in real time order
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Alliteration
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REPETITION OF THE SAME OR VERY SIMILAR CONSONANT SOUNDS usually at the begininning of words that are close in a poem
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Climax
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moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot
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Connotation
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all the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words in addition to literal meanings
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denotation
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a word's strict dictionary definition
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Dialogue
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the conversation between charcters in a stiry or play: set apart using quotation marks
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Diction
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a writer's or speaker's choice of words
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Direct Characterization
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When the writer tells us exactly what the character is like
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Dramatic Irony
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When we know what is in store for a character, but the character does not know
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Exposition
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Introduction to a story
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Fiction
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Writing that isn't true or factual
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First-person Narrator
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Speaking directly to the reader (I, me, my)
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Flashback
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Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
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Flash-forward
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Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to shift into the future
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Foreshadowing
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The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot
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Genre
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The category that a work of literature is classified under (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, myth)
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Historical context
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Actual events which serve as a setting for a story
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Inciting incident
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Event that starts the conflict; sets action into motion.
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Internal conflict
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Struggle a character has in his or her mind
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Irony
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Contrast between expectations and reality
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Literary criticism
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Analyzing literature for deeper meanings
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Mood
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A story's atmosphere or the feelings it evokes
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Narrator
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The voice telling a story
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Objective
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Being unbiased; not promoting an opinion, just giving facts
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Omniscient Narrator
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All-knowing; has access to character's thoughts
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Parody
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Imitating someone or something to poke fun at them
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Persuasion
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Making othersbeleive your point by supporting an argument
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Plot
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Series of related events that make up a story or drama
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Point of View
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vantage point from which a writer tells a story(omniscient, first person, third person)
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Prose
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ordinary writing---not poetry or drama
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Protagonist
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main character in fiction or drama
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Resolution
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final part in a story where conflict is concluded
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Round Character
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a character with many different raits, which sometmes contradict eachother---plays major role
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Satire
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typer of writing that ridicules something in order to show flaws and/or bring about change
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Setting
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the time and place of a story or play
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Short Story
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short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative
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Situational Irony
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occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens
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Static Character
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a character who does not change much in the course of the story
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Theme
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central idea of a work of literature
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Title
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the name of a story, play, poem, or novel
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Tone
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attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience
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Verbal Irony
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when someone SAYS one thing but MEANS the opposite
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Voice
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the writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text
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