APL Deck 1 Vocab Flashcards
(127 cards)
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A major unit in a drama or play.
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Act
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a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea about life.
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Allegory
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the repitition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
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Aliteration
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a refrence in literary word to a person, place, or thing in history or another word of literature.
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Allusion
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a comperison of two or more like objects that suggest if they are alike in certain respects, they will be in other ways as well.
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Analogy
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brief account of an interesting incidient or event that usually is intended to entertain or make a pun
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anacedote
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an actors speech, directed to the audience, thats not suppose to be heard by other actors on stage.
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Aside
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repitition of vowel sounds within the line of poetry
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assounance
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the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing.
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Audience
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writer of the book, play, article, or other text.
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Author
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Authors purpose is his reason for creating a particular work
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Authors purpose
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A form of nonfiction writing in which a person tell the story of his or her life
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autobiography
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poem that tells a story that is suppose to be snug or recitied
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Ballod
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the story of a persons life that is written by someone else
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biography
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a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry
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blank verse
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unryhmed iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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One event causes the other, the affter effect is the effect
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Cause and Effect
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a person is responisble for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other lit.
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Character
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A character in the story who decieves fustrates or works againsst the main character.
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anatagonist
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a picture or imitation of a person habits, physical apperance or mannerisms
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Caricture
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a character who serves as a constant conflict to another character
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foil
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a character whose actions are inspiring or noble
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Hero/Heroine
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the characters who are central to the plot of the story,
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main character
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less important cahcracters
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minor characters
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he or she may also be refered to as the hero of work
Novel, story, play, or poem
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all the techniques writers use to create character
characterization
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a characters personality , a trait is not physical description of a character
character triat
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the author dircetly states the characters traits
dynamic character
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a character that changes throughout the story
dynamic character
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a character whom little info is provided
flat character
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the author does not directly state the characters triats, instead the author draws conclusions
indirect characterization
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a character fully described by the author
round character
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a character who does not change or who changes very little in the course of the story
static character
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The order at which events happen in time
Chronological order
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Process of reviewing what the reader has read after reading to fast and going back over
Clarifying
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A type of figurative language containing an over used expression
Cliche
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A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone and usually ends happily
Comedy
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Process of identifying similarities
Comparison
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A type of poetry that uses it's physical and visual form to present it's message.
Concrete poetry
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The tension or problem in the story
Conflict
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The dominant or most important conflict in the story
Central conflict
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The problem or struggle that exist between the main character and an outside force.
External conflict
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Struggle in the main characters mind
Internal conflict
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A readers process of relating to the content of a literary work to his or her own knowledge
Connecting
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The idea and feeling associated with a word as opposed to it's dictionary definition
Connotation
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The repetition of constant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry
Consonance
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Hints or suggestions that may surround unfamiliar word or phrases and clarify there meaning
Context clues
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the process of pointing out differences between things
contrast
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a rhymed pair of lines in a poem
couplet
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exact or dictionary meaning of a word
dennotation
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form of language that is spoken in a particular place
dialect
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the conversation between characters in a drama or narative or poem
dialogue
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drama or plat that is meant to be preformed
Drama
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combining several pieces of information to make an inference
drawing conclusions
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literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her inter most thoughts and feelings
dramatic dialogue
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type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one that has died.
elegy
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incomplete syntax at the end of a line the meaning running over into the next line
enjambment
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a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event
epigram
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a brief tale that has a moral story or teaches a life lesson
fable
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a statement that can be proved, reflects writers belief
fact and opinion
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a work of literature that contains at least one fantastic or unreal element
fantasy
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a rhyme of stressed end
masculine rhyme
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a rhyme between stressed syllables
feminine rhyme
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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
antithesis
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a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
anachronism
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repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
anadiplosis
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1.
| a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.
Anagram
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Traditions, customs, and stories that are passed down within written culture
Folklore
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A unit of meter within a line of poetry
Foot
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Simple story passed down by generation by mouth
Folktale
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Writer provides clues or hints that suggest or predict the future
Foreshadowing
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Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme.
Free verse
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generalization
A broad statement about an entire group.
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Genre
Type of category of literature
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A traditional form of Japanese poetry
Haiku
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A couplet consisting of two concessive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought
Herioic couplet
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Fiction that explores a past time period and may contain references to actual people and events in the past
Historical fiction
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Fiction that explores the past time period and may contain references to actual people and events of the past
Horror fiction
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The quality that provokes laughter or amusement
Humor
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A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humerus effect
Hyperbole
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See meter
Iambic pentameter
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A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually says
Idiom
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The use of words and phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
Imagery
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Is a logical guess based on evidence in the text
Inference
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Meeting in which one person ask another about personal matters, personal matters or both.
Interview
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Contrast in what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
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Occurs when the speaker means something totally different then what he or she is saying.
Verbal irony.
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Occurs when facts are not known to characters in a work of lit but are known by the audience
Dramatic irony
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Suggest that some unknown force bring out dreadful events
Cosmetic irony
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Difference between what's expected and what actually worked out
Irony of situation
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A story handed down from the past about a specific person
Legend
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A short humorous poem composed of 5 lines
Limerck
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The actual meaning of a word
Literal meaning
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Poem used to express emotions or feelings
Lyric poem
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The most important idea the writers wishes to express
Main idea
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Specific type of autobiography doesn't cover authors entire life
Memoir
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Type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two unalike things
Metaphor
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The regular patter of accented and in accented syllables. Regular is know as foot
Accented is x
In accented is u
Both are identified by \
Meter
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Words that rhyme at the end of the verse
Eye or terminal rhymes
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Word that appear to rhyme but don't
Eye rhymes
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Rhyme found within a line of poetry
Internal rhyme
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Near rhyme half rhyme end vowels are the same.
Slant rhyme
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End rhyme
Rhyme scheme
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Flow of sounds created by in stressed and stress syllables in poetry
Rhythem
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Mockery or verbal irony
Sarcasm
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Work that targets human vices and follies
Satire
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Branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of words
Semantics
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Sum of choices the author makes blending diction and literary devices together
Style
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A word or clause that compliments a verb
Subject compliment
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Contains a subject and a verb but can't stand alone
Subordinate clause
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Anything that stands for something else
Symbol
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The way the author chooses to join words into phrases
Syntax
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Central idea
Theme
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A sentence or group of sentences that represent the authors thoughts.
Thesis
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Describes authors attitude towards his material
Tone
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A word or phrase that links different ideas.
Transition
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Ironic minimalizing of fact presents something less significant than it is
Understatement
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Intellectual amusing language that suprised and delights
Wit
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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
theme
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In a literary work, a motif can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. Motif and theme are linked in a literary work but there is a difference between them. In a literary piece, a motif is a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea or message.
motif
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words that are written appear to rhyme, but when spoken do not.
eye rhyme
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a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society
satire
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the process of searching through writing for a particular fact or piece of information
searching
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words and phrases that help readers see hear smell taste
sensory details
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distinctive style that uses a system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines, rhyme scheme or pattern. has two main styles
sonnet
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written in iambic pentameter, which ask questions or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a b b a abba total of 14 lines
petrarchan
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Elizabethan sonnet , Also called: English sonnet a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
Shakespearean sonnet
