Allegory - Cliche - narrative AND Explication - mixed metaphor Flashcards

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Tells about a series of events

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Narrative

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2
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Interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text

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Explication

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3
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Short story that teaches a practical lesson

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Fable

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A type of comedy that stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations

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Farce

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5
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Inaccurate if interpreted literally

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Figurative Language

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6
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Interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events

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Flashback

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7
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Character who acts as contrast to another character

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Foil

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8
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Hints and clues to suggest what till happen later in a plot

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Foreshadowing

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9
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Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhythm scheme

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Free Verse

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10
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Uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement

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Hyperbole

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11
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Connecting words between clauses

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Hypotactic

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12
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Use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, place, or an experience

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Imagery

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13
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Reversal of the normal word order in a sentence

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Inversion

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14
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Discrepancy between appearances and reality

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Irony

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15
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Someone says one thing but really means something else

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Verbal Irony

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When there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, and what really does happen

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Situational Irony

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Often used on stage. In the play or story character think one thing is true, but the audience knows better

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Dramatic Irony

18
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Normally un associated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another

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Juxtaposition

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Understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form

20
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Fiction or poetry tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape

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Local Color

21
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Main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units

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Loose Sentence

22
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Poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker

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Lyric Poem

23
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Makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles

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Does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison

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Implied Metaphor

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Extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it
Extended Metaphor
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Metaphor has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid
Dead Metaphor
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Metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible
Mixed Metaphor