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Allusion

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Reference to another literary work or art

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Paradox

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Something that doesn’t make sense but looking at closely makes sense

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Dynamic

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Goes through change

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Static

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Does not go through change

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Flat

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Don’t know a lot about character

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Round

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Know a lot about character

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Fryetag’s pyramid

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Story telling structure includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

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Exposition

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Dialogue or description that provides background information about the characters and information

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Inciting incident

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Main problem occurs

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Rising action

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Conflict is further developed

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Climax

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Most exciting point, point of no return

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Falling action

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Events that take place after and are a result of the climax

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Denouement

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The ending

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Situational

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unexpected occur

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Dramatic

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Audience knows something character doesn’t

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Verbal

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Speaker says one thing and means another

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Limited

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Focuses on thoughts and feelings of one single character

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Omniscient

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Focuses on the thoughts and feelings of all or multiple characters

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Satire

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Humorous mocking. Harrison Bergeron, Fahrenheit 451

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Utopia

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An imagined place or state in which everything is perfect

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Dystopia

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An imagined place or state in which everything is bad

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Surveillance

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Monitoring of actions or behaviors

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Panopticon

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Area where everything is visible or able to be monitored

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Heresy

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Belief or opinion contrary to the accepted policy

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Introspection
The examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional processes
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Critical thinking
A way of analyzing a claim to decide whether it is true of partially true
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Inculcate
Implant by repeated statement or reprimand punishment
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Sociology
Study of development,structure, functioning of human society
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Philosophy
Study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence especially when considered as an academic discipline
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Denounce
To report someone has done something bad
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Trade journal
Magazine for trade
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Censorship
Removing altering or destroying various forms of expression or removing limiting access to them
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Dissident
Someone who goes against the government or those in power
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Epiphany
Sudden realization
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Foil
A character is different from another character in at least one way
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Liberal arts college
A collage with an emphasis on non-professional non technical non vocational disciplines in which students were exposed to a wide range of academic subjects
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Confidante
A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat to others
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Tag name
Symbolic name Montag = stationary company Faber = pencil company
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Stream of consciousness
A narrative that features the thoughts as they play out and flow continuously in a characters head
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Scapegoat
A person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done
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Mentor
An experienced and trusted advisor
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Omnipotence
State of being all powerful
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Omnipresence
State of being everywhere at once
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Omniscience
State of being all knowing
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Memoir
A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge
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Narrater
Person who tells a story
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Superstition
Belief in supernatural casualty
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Portent
Sign of something bad
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Prose
Ordinary form of spoken or written language without poetic structures
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Stanza
A unified group of lines in poetry usually divided by a blank line
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Nostalgia
Bittersweet longing for the past
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Empathy
Ability to understand and share the feelings of another
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Sympathy
Feeling of pit and sorrow for someone else's misfortune
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Roman a clef
A coming of age story, marigold, scarlet ibis
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Tone
Authors attitude towards subject
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Pathetic fallacy
Weather mirrors characters emotions
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Motif
Idea that repeats itself
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Fallibility
Philosophical theory that says people can make mistakes even when they think they didn't. Now way to have absolute final knowledge
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Infallibility
Quality of never making an error
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Cliché
Phrase that is overused
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Aside
Short remark spoken by one character to another that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear
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Soliloquy
Longer speech in which a character utters thoughts aloud
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Pun
Play on words. Include words that sound the same but have different meanings
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Comic relief
Humor or a humorous scene that appears immediately before of immediately after a serious scene of set of lines
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Apostrophe
Figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality object or idea
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Oxymoron
Two words placed side by side that seem to be contradictory
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Antithesis
Two words placed side by side or close by each other that are opposite
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Footnote
Information written at the bottom of a page in a text meant to guide the reader

English 1 honors (9 decks)

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