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English I- Spring Final Flashcards

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bildungsroman

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coming of age story

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mood

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the way the author feels about the story or wants the reader to feel (for the reader)

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setting

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time and place

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tone

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the way the author addresses or feels about the audience (to the reader)

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syntax

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sentence structure

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diction

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word choice

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personification

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when a non-person is given human traits

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epic simile

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elaborate and lengthy simile

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epithet

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descriptive phrases that help describe or rename a character

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chekov’s gun

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anything placed into a story must eventually be used

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motif

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symbols of themes

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symbol

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something that represents or stands for something else

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conflict

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external
-man v. man
-man v. nature
-man v. society
-man v. religion
internal
-man v. self
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allusion

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a reference made to something else

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oracle

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a prophet that can see the future

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characterization

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the process in which an author describes a character and builds their personality

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dialect

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the way a person or character speaks

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foil

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the opposite- a character or story line established to provide contrast

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archetype

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a pattern or model

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historical fiction

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a genre of fiction with some basis in historical events

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still life

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painting of inanimate objects

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dramatic poetry

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is poetry where the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet. frequently dramatic poetry is in the form of a dialogue, where more than one character speaks

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epic poetry

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a long, dignified, narrative poem that tells the story of a n important hero

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haiku

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a 17 syllable poem that represents the poet’s impression of a natural object or scene written in line lengths consisting of exactly 5,7,and 5 syllables

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sonnet

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a 14 line verse with a structure and rhyme scheme that vary by type

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petrarchan sonnet

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14 lines=and octave and a sestet wit either AABBAABBA CDECDE or ABBAABBA CDCDCD

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ballad

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a simple, narrative verse which tells a story; meant to be sung or recited

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elegy

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a poem of lament as a tribute or memorial

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narrativve poem

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a poem that tells a story

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ode

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a serious poem of tribute to an object of importance to the poet

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free verse

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unrhymed lines without a regular rhythm or line length

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blank verse

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unrhymed lines with regular rhythm/ line length

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stanza

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a stanza is like a paragraph in a poem. it contains one idea. feet make up lines and line make up stanzas. stanzas are named for the number of lines in them

  • 2=couplet
  • 3=tercet
  • 4=quatrain
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alliteration

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the repetition of 2 or more initial sounds of words within a line

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allusion

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a reference to a commonly known outside piece of literature or art

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anaphora

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repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis

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apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which someone not present or not human is addressed as though it could respond

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hyperbole

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an intentional overstatement or exaggeration for effect

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idiom

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a common usage phrase that has a different intended meaning than its literal one

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irony

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when the words or actions are different from what is expected or intended

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dramatic irony

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when the audience knows information that changes understand that the character do not

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situational irony

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when the situation is the opposite or very different from the intended outcome

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verbal irony

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when the words spoken are not meant to be understood literally

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metaphor

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a direct comparison of to unlike things

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onomatopoeia

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using a word whose to suggest sound

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personification

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given human traits and characteristics to an inhuman thing

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pun

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a play on words to draw multiple meanings from the same, or similar sounding words

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refrain

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the repetition of one or more lines at regular intervals within a poem

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rhyme

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the repetition of sounds within the poem

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end rhyme

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rhyme occurring at the end of lines

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internal rhyme

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rhyme occurring within a line

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simile

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comparing 2 unlike things using like or as

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symbol

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an object that represents a larger object, idea, or ideal

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synesthsia

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a description of one sense in terms of another

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understatement

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to intentionally downplay or diminish something for effect. the opposite of a hyperbole

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short story plot map

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climax
^
/ \
rising action / \falling action
/ \
Exposition/background / \ Resolution/denouement
___________________/ \________________

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canon

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works generally accepted as classics

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dramatic personae

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list of characters

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play structure

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acts,scene, lines

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Romeo and Juliet (main characters)

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romeo
montague
lady montague
mercutio
benvolio
juliet
capulet
lady capulet
nurse
the prince
tybalt
friar lawrence 
rosaline
county paris
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GWAPE (main characters)

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Griet
Pieter
Pieter the son
Pieter Van Ruijven 
Vermeer
Cathrina
Maria Thins
Maertge
Corneilia 
Agnes
Frans
Father
Mother
Tanneke
Van  Leeuwenhoek
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GWAPE (main themes)

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bildungsroman
social status
expectations
gender issues
independence
religion
trust
art (perception of art)
truth
choices
who am I?

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