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1/3/2017 Test Flashcards

1
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Irony

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Contrast between expectation and reality

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Verbal irony

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What is said is the opposite of what is meant

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Situational irony

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What happens is different from or even opposite of what we expected

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Dramatic irony

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We know something a character doesn’t know

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Why was the narrator insane in “The Tell-Tale Heart”?

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He kept trying to give reasons as to why he was not, he also thought that his “disease” had helped him by heightening his senses

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6
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The narrator hated the old man because of his ______.

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Eye

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What was the irony in “The Tell-Tale Heart” when the narrator was sneaking into the old man’s house

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The old man had his shutters locked in fear of robbers when they should have been locked for murderers

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In “war” what was the guy’s job

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Calvary/one who reports back who is after them

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Provides background information about the characters, setting, and the situation (inciting incident) that frameworks and develops/introduces the conflict

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Exposition

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After the inciting incident, the conflicts and complications for the main character (protagonist) begin to build in intensity and complexity

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Rising action

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The _________ of the story occurs when the emotional tension and conflict becomes the most intense to create a turning pint of choices the protagonist must make that affects the outcome of the story

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Climax

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The ____________________ is the response and result of the actions and choices made during the climax, it works to help resolve the conflict

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Falling action

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The _____________ (denouement) is the final outcome of the story the “untying of the knot (French)” of conflict to reveal the central message or theme of the story

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Resolution

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Personality comprised of emotions, motivations, choices, relationship and experiences that move the plot forward through engaging in conflict (to build and to resolve) to reveal a greater message (theme) to the audience

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Character

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One dimensional personality (one trait/stereotype)

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Flat character

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Three dimensional (two or more traits)

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Round character

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17
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Personality changes and grows through experiences

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Dynamic character

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18
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Remains the same throughout the story

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Static character

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19
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The character, or persona, that the author uses to tell a narrative, or story. ___________ may tell stories from several different points of view, including first person, second person (very rare), and third person

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Narrator

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A narrator who recounts only what characters say and do, offering not insight into their thinking or analysis of events, all interpretations are left to the reader

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Objective narrator

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__________ who is biased and doesn’t give a full or accurate picture of events in a narrative, may be unreliable because of youth, inexperience, madness, intentional or unintentional bias or even a lack of morals. Authors often used this technique to distinguish the character’s point of view from their own. Sometimes an author will use an unreliable narrator to make an ironic point.

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Unreliable narrator

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22
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Character is developed through _______ and __________ characterization

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Direct

Indirect

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23
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Narrator explicitly describes the appearance, motivation, history/background, emotions, and temperament of the character

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Direct characterization

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Author shows rather than tells us what a character is like through his or her actions, thoughts and words, as well as what other characters’ perceptions and actions towards a character to be described

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Indirect characterization

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25
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Main character

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Protagonist

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26
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A character in conflict with the protagonist

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Antagonist

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27
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A character that represents a “type” of personality

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Stereotype

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28
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Contrasting character who possess the opposite personality traits of the protagonist to enhance the qualities of the protagonist that lead to the overall theme developed by the conflict

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A foil

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29
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Two or more opposing forces that drives the plot forward through character to reveal the theme

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Conflict

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30
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Opposition or tension between who characters or forces

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External conflict

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31
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Occurs within the character

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Internal conflict

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32
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Time and place that embodies a specific set of manners, mores, customs, rituals, and codes of conduct within a society the characters live

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Setting

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Set in historical era of a certain time and place

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Historical context

34
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May be established by time period or created by a fictional senses of time to exhibit the mores, manners, codes of expected social/individual conduct, and rituals to product a commentary on societal conventions and ideals

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Cultural environment

35
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Perspective through which a story is told

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Point of view

36
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Narrator relates the action using third-person pronouns (he, she, it). This narrator is usually privy to the thoughts and actions of only one character

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Limited

37
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Narrator is privy to the thoughts and actions of all the characters in the story

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Omniscient narrator

38
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Technique in which prose follows the logic and flow of a character’s (can be multiple characters) thought processes, a more ordered narrative

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Stream of consciousness

39
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Central message conveyed through plot (everything in story)

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Theme

40
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Repetition of a consonant sound

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Alliteration

41
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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Assonance

42
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Feeling created in the reader by literary work

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Mood/atmosphere

43
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Nonhuman noun is given human qualities

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Personification

44
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Like/as is used to make a comparison

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Similie

45
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A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

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Allusion

46
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Suggest events that have yet to occur, this technique helps create suspense, keeping readers wondering about what will happen next

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Foreshadowing

47
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The descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader

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Imagery

48
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Carbine

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A light, automatic rifle

48
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Roan

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A color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs

48
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Scrub

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Stunted trees or shrubs

48
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Having a strong or sharp taste or odor

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Pungently

48
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Repugnant

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Extremely distasteful; unacceptable

48
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Verdigris

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A bright bluish-green encrustation or thin layer formed on copper or brass by atmospheric oxidation

48
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Reconnoiter

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To make a survey

48
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At full career

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At full speed

48
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Essayed

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Tried

48
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Myriad

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A countless number of

48
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Aperture

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Opening

49
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Agitation

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Disturbance

50
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Juxtaposition

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Technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters are placed side by side in a narrative or poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts

51
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Symbol

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Anything that stands for something else

52
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What forms of juxtaposition were used in War?

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Death/human death death destination-farmhouse

Rebirth/hope of nature-orchard

53
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What forms of juxtaposition were used in the Gift of the Magi?

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Wealthy people (3 wise men) (3 poor people)

54
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What allusions were in Gift of the Magi?

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3 wise kings/magi, Queen of Sheba, king Solomon

55
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What forms of imagery were in Gift of the Magi?

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Gray and colorless setting is a direct contrast to the bright holiday colors of NYC

56
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Dammit more Magi stuff: Okay, name all of the ways 3 was used.

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3 wise men/magi
3 characters
3 gifts: gold, frankincense, myrrh
3: love, combs, fob
Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon 3 gifts
$1.87 is mentioned 3 times
57
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Assertion

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A statement

58
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Flat

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British term for apartment

59
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Fob chain

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Watch chain

60
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Hashed

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Old; overused

61
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Idiocy

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Stupidity

62
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Illuminated

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Clarified; explained

63
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Imputation

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Allegration

64
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Inconsequential

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Unimportant; minor

65
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Instigates

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Starts; begins

66
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Longitudinal

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Vertical lines

67
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Mendicancy

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The condition of being poor and a beggar

68
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Parsimony

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Frugality, thrift

69
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Prudence

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Caution; carefulness

70
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Scrutiny

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Intense observation

71
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Sentiment

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Feeling; opinion; thought

72
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Why is setting used in stories?

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Enhances:
Conflict
Mood
Contributes to symbolism

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