MOD3 - Basic Txtual Reading Approach

Question 1

The practice of using specific words orphrases that allow the author to give offa particular effect in the piece.

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Literary Devices

Question 2

Done by the practice of drawing parallels or comparisons between two different things.

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Simile

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Is a device wherein a subject is implied to be another to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits.

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Metaphor

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is the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena & animals.

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Personification

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is the practice of using specific words or phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize to create a grander, more noticeable effect.

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Hyperbole

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Synechdoche

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Uses a part of something to describe it as a whole or vice versa.

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Metonymy

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Practice of not using the formal word for a subject to refer it by using word closely related to it.

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Oxymoron

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Uses contradictory concepts together.

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Antithesis

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2 statements with contrasting meanings

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Irony

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Sarcastic play of words

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Allusion

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uses reference from mythical, historical, biblical, and etc. character, event, place, or object.

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Apostrophe

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addresses an inanimate object as if they were alive

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Onomatopoeia

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Users words to suggest sounds from inanimate objects

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Assonance

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repition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences

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Anaphora

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repitition of sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses

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Alliterations

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repititions of initial consonant sounds

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Flashback

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A recall to the past

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Foreshadowing

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gives hints or clues on what is to happen in the later time

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Practice of beginning a story in a crucial moment

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In media res

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A person who suddenly appears in the story to give a an unexpected solution to the problem

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Deus Ex Machina

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Elements to keep the story running smoothly

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Story elements

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Protagonist

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Main character of the story

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Antagonist

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a major opposing character to the protagonist

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A stock character who provides a major plot twist to the story

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Foil character

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stereotypical characters

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Stock characters

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flat character

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does not undergo character development

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round character

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known as a dynamic character, undergoes change

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Point of view

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a manner on how the author chooses to tell a story

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First POV

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uses I, we, and first person pronouns

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Second POV

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Uses you and second person pronouns

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Third Limited

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POV that narrates the story outside of a single character

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Third Omniscient

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the narrator knows and tells it all

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Conflict

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the obstacles in the story (man vs man, etc.)

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setting

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time and place

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Plot

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relates to the events in the story

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Theme

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usually the moral or idea of the story.

Question 37

He’s got a heartas hard as a rock.

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Simile

Question 38

Their love story was nothing but a book chapter

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metaphor

Question 39

The leaves outside kept onwaving. They seemed to besaying goodbye too.

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Personification

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The pain felt as if a carkept on hitting me athousand times.

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Hyperbole

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Fins kept on swimming afloat the sea surface.

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Synechdoche

Question 42

The Palace hasconfirmed that the prince really did have an affair.

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Metonymy

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pretty ugly, deafening silence, virtual reality

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Oxymoron

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Give me your all, or nothing at all.

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Antithesis

Question 45

“Oh, fine luck!”James exclaimed as he slipped on a banana peel.

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Irony

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His wife was his Achilles’ heel.

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Allusion

Question 47

“ Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.”

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Apostrophe

Question 48

water plops into pond splish-splash downhill

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Onomatopoeia

Question 49

I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.

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Assonance

Question 50

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, ...

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Anaphora

Question 51

She sells seashells by the sea-shore

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Alliteration