english Flashcards

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Character

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A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work.

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Characterization

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the means by which writers reveal characters

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Conflict

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the central problem that the story revolves around

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Internal Conflict

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conflict with a person

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External Conflict

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conflict with character and something/one else

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Setting

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the time and place where a story takes place

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dynamic or round

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characters that change

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static or flat

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characters that don’t change

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character trait

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the quality that a character exibits

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Character motivation

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is the reason he she takes a particular action

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antagonist

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bad

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Protagonist

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good

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Sequence

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Every story is made up of a sequence or and order of events

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Author’s Style

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Literary elements that describe the ways that the author uses words

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Author’s Purpose

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Reason and author decides to write about a specific topic. to inform, persuade entertain or explain his ideas to the reader

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Paraphrase

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is the restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words

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Personification

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giving non human objects human characteristics

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alliteration

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the occurrence of the same later

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Hyberbole

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an exaggeration

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onomatopeia

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sounds to things

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simile

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Contrasting to seemingly different things to enhance the meaning of the situation or theme using like or as

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Extended metaphor

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Comparison of two unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph

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metaphor

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Contrasting to seeming different things to enhance the meaning of a situation or them without like or as

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Figurative language

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use of words to express meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words themselves.
Metaphor simile hyperbole alliteration personification. onomatopoeia

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Literal language
word that do not deviate from the defined meaninf
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meter
pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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rhyme
identify in sound of some part, especially the end
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Stanza-
a smaller unit within a poem or verse or averse in a song
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Theme
The underlying focous of a story. they want the reader to discover
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symbol
something specific is used to represent something abstract
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Dramatic irony
The reader/observers knows something that the character in the text does not
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Situational irony
Difference between what appears to be and what actually is true "surprise ending"
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Verbal irony
When a character says something but means the exact opposite
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allusion
a brief and indirect reference to a person place think of idea od historical culteral literat or political significanxw
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Words in context
help with context clues
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Denotation
dictionary or literal meaning
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connotation
meaning that is implied by a word
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sarcasm
mock with often satrical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse of hurt
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diction
word choice
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syntax
the grammatical arrangement of words for effect
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imagery
vivid appeals to the senses
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details facts that are included or omitted
details
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tone
speaker or narrator feels towards the subject not the reader
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mood
what the reader feels towards the subject of a story
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imagery
this is a set of mental pictures made with the use of figurative language
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bias
prejudice in favor of or against one thing
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opinion
states something BELIEVED To have occured to exist od to be true
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fact
states something that HAPPENs
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Editorial
newspaper article written by ediror ro igve an opnion
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narrator
the person who recounts the events of a navel of narative poem
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point of view
voice in which the story is told.(3)
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1st person
I us we
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2nd
you
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3rd
he she them
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flashback
and interssuption to insert past events
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foreshadowing
hits that things will happen with clues
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resolution (denouement
how the story ends
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falling action
loose ends are tied ip
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climax
character makes decision and defined them and the outcome of the story
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rising action
events leading up to the climax
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exposition
information that is necessary to help understand the conflict
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plot
the series of events that muke up a story of drama