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literary terms day 14-20 Flashcards

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a lyric poem of some length .

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Onomatopoeia

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the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning.

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Opinion

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see fact and opinion.

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Oral history

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stories of people’s lives related by word of mouth.

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Oxymoron

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a form of figurative language combining contradictory word as or ideaas.

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Paradox

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a statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheless, true.

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Parallelism

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the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in impirtance.

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Paraphraasing

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the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form.

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Parody

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a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author’s work for comic effect or ridicule.

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Personification

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a figure of speech where animals ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics.

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Perspective

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see point of view.

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Persuasion

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persuasive writing is ment to sway readers’ feelings, beliefs, or actions.

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Play

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see drama.

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Plot

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the sequence of related events that make up a story.

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Exposition

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introduces the characters and the conflicts they face.

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Inciting incident

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occurs after the exposition and introduces the central conflict within the story.

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Rising action

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following the introduction of the central conflict.

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Climax

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turning point.

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Falling action

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the end of the central conflict in a story when the action starts to wind down.

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Resolution or Denouement

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occurs after the climax and is where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up.

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Subplot

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an additional minor plot that involves a secondary conflicts in the story.

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Poetry

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a type of liturature in which ideas and feelingsd are expressed in compact, imadinatie, and often musical language.

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Point of view

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perspective from which a story is told.

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First person point of view

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the person telling the story is one of the characters in the story.

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Second person point of view

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refers to the use of you in explanations or arguments.

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Third person limited or third person objective

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the person telling the story is not one of the characters in the story .

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Third person omniscient

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the narrator is not a character in the story but one of the events in the story asre seen through the eyes of more than one of the characters.

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Predicting

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the process if gathering information and combining it with the reader’s own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story.

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Primary source

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a first hand account of an event .

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Propaganda

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text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view.

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Prose

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the ordinary form of spoken and written language.

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Protagonist

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see character.

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Questioning

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the process of raising questions while reading in an effort to understand chracters and events.

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Realistic fiction

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imaginative writer set in the real, modern world.

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Refrain

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repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals.

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Repetition

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technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.

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Resolution

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see plot.

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Rhyme

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repetition of an identical or similary accented sound or sounds in a work.

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End or terminal rhymes

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words that rhyme at the end of a verseline.

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Soliloquy

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a speech delivered ny a character who is alone on the stage.

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Sonnet

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a sonnet is a distinctive poetic style that uses a system or pattern of metrical stucture and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines arranged in a set of rhyme scheme or pattern.

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Sound devices

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see alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, and rhythm.

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Speaker

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the voive that talks to the reasder in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction.

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Speech

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a talk given in public.

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Stage directions

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the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play.

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Eye rhymes

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are words that when written appear to rhyme but when spoken do not.

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Internal rhyme

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rhyme found within a line of poetry.

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Slant rhymes

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is also known as near rhyme or pararhyme.

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Rhyme scheme

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pattern of end rhyme used in poems generally indicated by matching lower case letters to show which lines rhyme .

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Rhythm

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refers to the pattern of flow sounds created by the arrangments of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

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Rising action

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see plot.

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Sarcasm

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use of praise to mock someone or something.

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Satire

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a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiiculed for the purpose of improving society.

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Scanning

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the process of search writing for a particularfact in one place at one time.

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Scean section

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in a play presenting eventsd that occur in one place at one time.

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Science fiction

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prose writing in which a writer explores unexplores unexpected possibilites of the past or the futruew by using seientific data and theories as well his/her immagination

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Secondary source

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a secondary spirce presents information complied from based on other sources.

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Sensory details

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words or phrases that help readers see hear feel aste or snell wha author is describung.

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Sequence

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the order in which events happen or order in which events are presented in the srtore.

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Setting

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the time place physical details and circumstances ibn which a story occurs.

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Shorty story

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breif work of fiction.

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Simile

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a type of fig. language makes a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

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