English

Question 1

Antagonist

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The person who opposes the protagonist and is the “bad guy”. He is the person who causes the conflict

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Alliteration

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When 2 words that are near each other with the same consonant(s)

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Allusion

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A reference to a piece of literary outside of the piece of literary that is reasonably well known. This can be direct but more likely indirect

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Aside

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A device/short speech meant to be dramatic that the characters can’t hear but is meant for the audience.

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Assonance

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A repetition of vowels with the vowels being followed by different consonants

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Characterisation

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Where an author develops characters and their personalities

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Direct Characterisation

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Author description

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Indirect Characterisation

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The character’s appearance, speech, thoughts, actions and other character’s thoughts of the character

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Character types-flat

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One dimensional, simple

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Character types- Static

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The character remains unchanged emotionally or psychologically throughout the entire story

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Character types-Dynamic

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The character will undergo emotional or psychological change

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Conflict

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Struggle in some form between 2 or more opposing forces

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Cyclical Structure

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Where the story starts and ends at the same point in some way.

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Character types- Round

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Complex and will undergo development in some form

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Dialogue

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Direct speech from characters to another character

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Diction

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A writer’s unique form of expression using arrangement of words

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Figurative Language

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Language that represents something that is not that thing. These type of things include simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole and symbolism

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Flashback

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Where the story moves back in time to show something that is important to the piece of literature

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Foreshadowing

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Small hints in the story that gives the reader an idea of what is going to happen

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Genre

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The type or category a piece of work is

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration to increase effect

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Repetition

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The repeating of words or phrases that can be used for several reasons.

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Idiom

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Words that when put together have a meaning together but using their direct meaning make no sense

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Imagery

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Language that is targeted to the 5 senses

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Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows something a character doesn't

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Situational Irony

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A difference between what is said vs what happens

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Verbal irony

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When the character that is speaking says something but means something different

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Motif

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A reoccurring feature that happens that is related to a theme and can be following a person or repeating event

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that sounds like the sound

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Paradox

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A statement that seems contradictory but could reveal other things

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Personification

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The making of a non person have person like characteristics

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Plot

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The sequence of events in a literary work

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Point of view

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Whose or what perspective the literary work is told in

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1st person point of view

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The point of view is I

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2nd person point of view

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The reader's perspective of the story is you

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3rd person point of view

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The reader's perspective of the story is he she they

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Protagonist

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The person who is the main character in the story

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Rhyme

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When words end in similar or exact sounds

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Rhyme scheme

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Most used in poems, the lines follow a pattern such as AABB ABAB. These are denoted as patterns

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Setting

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Where and when the story is set

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Simile

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Stating a thing is like or as another thing which is not like what it is.

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Soliloquy

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A dramatic device where a character speaks out his thoughts aloud whilst alone

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Speaker

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The voice in a poem or the person or thing speaking

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Stanze

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Effectively the verses in a story

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Stereotype

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Standardised conventional ideas about characters, plots and setting.

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Suspense

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Technique that keeps the reader guessing and reading the story.

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Theme

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The main idea of the story

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Tone

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The attitude towards different subjects of works

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Satire

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A literary work in which a human is attacked through irony derision or wit

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Oxymoron

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2 phrases that are directly contradictory

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Metaphor

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A comparison that does not use like or as using dissimilar objects

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Frame Narrative

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A technique storytellers use where the narrator tells a story. Effectively a story in a story.