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36 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or abstract ideas or qualities.
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Allusion
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A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture.
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Analogy
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A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike
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Antagonist
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The opponent who struggles against or blocks the protagonist in a story.
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Apostrophe
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A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent.
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Character
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An individual in a story or play.
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Characterization
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The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
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Direct Characterization
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The writer tells us, directly, what the character is like, ie snobby, smart, etc. The reader does not have to infer.
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Indirect Characterization
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The reader has to use their own judgment, putting clues together, to infer what a character is like. The author may put the character in a situation and the reader will have to decide on the personality of the character based on the way they react to the situation or their role in the situation.
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Static Character
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A character who doesn't change throughout the course of the story.
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Dynamic Character
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A character who, as a result of the stories actions, changes, ie grows more mature, changes opinion, etc.
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Flat Character
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Characters that have few personality traits and can be summed up in a single phrase, ie, the loyal sidekick or the baffoon.
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Round Characters
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Characters that have more than one dimension to their personalities, well rounded characters. They are complex, like real people.
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Climax
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hat point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. The turning point of the action.
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Comedy
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A story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main characters.
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Denotation
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The dictionary definition of a word.
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Connotation
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the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
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Double Entendre
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A pun with two meanings, one clean and one bawdy.
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Diction
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A speaker or writer's choice of words.
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Doppelganger
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A ghostly counterpart of a living person or someone who acts like the characters double in the story.
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Denouement
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The conclusion or resolution of a story.
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Exposition
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One of the four major forms of discourse, in which something is explained or "set forth."
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Flashback
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A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
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Foil
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A minor character who acts as a contract to another character.
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Foreshadowing
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The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
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"In Medias Res"
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A literary technique in which the narrative strarts in the middle of the story instead of the beginning.
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Irony
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The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
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Verbal Irony
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Verbal irony occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else.
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Situational Irony
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Situational irony takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic irony usually takes place on stage, and the audience knows something the character doesn't know or knows the opposite of.
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Parable
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A relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson, about how to lead a good life. There are many in the Bible.
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Paradox
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A statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth.
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Parody
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A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writers style.
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Plot
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The series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the story line.
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Exposition
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Tells us who the characters are and introduces their conflicts.
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Complications
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Arise as the story
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