english final comp2 Flashcards

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Synopsis

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Includes a summary of the plot, author, time period, literary tools, epiphany, literary analysis

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Epiphany

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Sudden moment of realization

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Allegory

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work of fiction that often uses animals or inanimate objects to teach a lesson

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Hubris

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overwhelming self-arrogance & pride

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Symbolism

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using something to represent something else

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Foreshadowing

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hints at future events

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Irony

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expecting one thing and getting something else

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Alliteration

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words that start with the same letter

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Allusion

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indirectly referring to something

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Connotation

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emotional context of a word

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Dramatic Monologue

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1 character speaking to another at a dramatic moment

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Hyperbole

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extreme exaggeration

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Personification

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giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects

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Poetic License

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permission given to poets and writers to change the laws of language

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Soliloquy

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1 character alone on stage speaking his thoughts out loud

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Literary Analysis

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Surface level, authors purpose, personal meaning

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Catharsis

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emotional release/ relief

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Haiku

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Japanese origin, 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllable pattern ,(type of poetry)

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Free verse

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no set meter or rhyme

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Sonnet

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Shakesperean, 14 lines ( 3 quatrains, 1 couplet), Iambic pentameter

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Climax

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point of most intense conflict

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Conflict

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man vs. self, man vs. man/ society, man v. nature

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Couplet

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set of two lines that rhyme

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Quatrain

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set of 4 lines

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Apostrophe

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to directly address an inanimate object

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Meter

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Rhythmic arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Fiction

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willing suspension of disbelief

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Poetry

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the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion