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English Flashcards

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Allusion

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An indirect reference to a work, time period, or concept, generally familiar, such as historical facts, legends, the Bible, or classic literature

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Metaphor

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An indirect comparison that doesn’t use ‘like’ or ‘as’

(long def’n: an implied comparison in which one object/person etc., is described in terms of another)

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Personification

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The attributes of human qualities to an idea, animal, or inanimate object

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Theme

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The main idea of a work

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Irony

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A contrast of some sort, when the complete opposite of what is expected occurs

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Conflict

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A state of disharmony among characters or forces

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Foreshadowing

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An indication that hints at later events in the story

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Point of View

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The perspective from which a story is told

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Omniscient pov

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The narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters

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Limited pov

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Narrator’s omniscience is limited to the thoughts of a few select characters

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Character pov

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Used with limited omniscience, the narration is focused on one character, the reader knows his/her thoughts (used in Huckleberry Finn)

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Setting

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The time, place, and circumstances in which the action of a story takes place

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Motif

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A repetition of an image or idea that reinforces a theme in a work of literature
(ex, death & superstition in Huck. Finn)

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Symbolism

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A character or object that has meaning in itself and also represents something else

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Dialect

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The characteristic speech of a particular region or social group

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16
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The Bells

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Edgar Allen Poe

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The Tell-Tale Heart

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Poe

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The Gold Bug

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Poe

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The Cask of Amontillado

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Poe

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The Raven

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Poe

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A Dream Within a Dream

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Poe

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Rip Van WInkle

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Washington Irving

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

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Walden

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Henry David Thoreau

25
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Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

26
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

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Our Town

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Thornton Wilder

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Allegory

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A story within a story, a story that really means something else, symbolism for a whole story

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Flashback

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When you go back in time to find an important detail, a transition in the story

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Alliteration

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When words start with the same letter
(ex: Walker walked within Walmart with a weasel on a windy, wet Wednesday in Waynesboro)

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like the sound they represent
(Ex: boom, pow, jingle)

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

33
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Simile

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Comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’

34
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Bildungsroman

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Novel about growing up

35
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Metatheatre

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Aspects of a play that draw attention to the fact that it’s a play

36
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Magical realism

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A real life story with magical bits

37
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Juxtaposition

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Putting two opposite things together
(ex: death and life, peace and chaos)

38
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Hasty Generalization

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An inference drawn from insufficient evidence

39
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Ad Hominem

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“Against the man,” attacking someone’s character instead of the quality of their ideas

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Sentimental Appeal

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Playing on readers’ emotions to distract them from the facts

41
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Slippery Slope

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Exaggeration of the likely consequences of an action, designed to show that a mistake now could result in a disaster in the future

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False cause

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Incorrect assumption that one event caused another event

43
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Scare Tactics

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Using fear to sway people by exaggerating possible dangers well beyond their statistical likelihood

44
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Either/Or

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Unfair oversimplification of an issue by providing only two options as a possible solution

45
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Red Herring

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A device used to change the subject of an argument and distract the reader from the real issue

46
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Romanticism (1820 - 1865)

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-Formal language
-Happy/satisfying endings
-Exoctic/fantastic settings
-Plot-driven
-Author intrusion is common
-Far-fetched characters (Spirits, pirates, bandits)
-Idealized themes and simple characters (Good guys, bad guys)
-Spectacular, supernatural, and mysterious plot elements
-Everything is essential to the story

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Realism (1865 - 1914)

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-Realistic dialect/language
-Realistic endings and places
-Character driven
-Not a lot of author intrusion
-Ordinary characters with complex motivations (like real people, not clearly good or bad)
-Ambiguous/unclear themes
-Ordinary plot events
-Non essential details
-Social critique

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Modernism (1914 -1940)

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-Individualism & experimentation
-Stream of consciousness
-People wanted to express their own ideas in their own ways

49
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Contemporary (1940 - now)

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-Identity
-Impact of Technology
-Harsher Reality

50
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Archetype

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Specific type, an original that is imitated

51
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Black Humor

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Making light/joking about a topic that is usually serious

52
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Malapropism

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Mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one

53
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Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern in which a poem rhymes
(ABAB, CDCD, etc.)

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