LA PAT Flashcards

(48 cards)

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Anecdote

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A story about something real

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Antagonist

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A character in the anecdote

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Autobiography

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A story about someone’s life

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Biography

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A story about someone

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Climax

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The most intense part of the story

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Complication

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A problem or dilemma

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Conflict

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A disagreement or argument

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Denouement

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Final part

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Dialogue

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2 people are talking

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Exposition

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An explanation

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Falling Action

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After the climax

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Fiction

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Not real

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First Person

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Using I, me. Saying your point of view.

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Flashback

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A sudden memmory

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Flat Character

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A character that stays the same

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Foreshadowing

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A wanring or indication

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Genre

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The topic

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Heroic

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Having the characteristics of a hero

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Heroine

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Admired

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Memoir

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A historical account or biography

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Narrative

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Non- fiction

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Based on a true story, its a fact

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Omniscient

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Seeing something

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Parallelism

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A word that creates a tone or a flow for poetry.

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Plot
Plan in secret
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Protagonist
Main character
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Rising Action
Story gets exciting
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Suspense
Uncertain feeling
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Third Person
She, he, it. Outsider looking
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Alliteration
The beginning of the word starts with the same letter.
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Allusion
An indirect reference in literature
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Assonance
Words that rhyme is used commonly in a sentence or piece of literature. The vowels are the same
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Consonance
Vowels are different, but the words rhyme.
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Hyperbole
Not literal and exaggerated
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Irony
Something that is said means the opposite of what they meant.
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Limerick
Humorous shot lines
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Metaphor
A figure of speech that isn't literal.
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Onomatopoeia
Sounds
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Oxymoron
Figure of speech
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Parody
Imitation
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Personification
Referring to human attributes, but using them in sentences makes them not literal.
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Pun
Joke
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Simile
Comparison of 2 things
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Stanza
Paragraph
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Symbolism
Using symbols
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Rhyme Scheme
Sounds that are repeated
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Rhyme
Similar sounds
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Excerpt
A short part of a story (passage that is taken away from a story).