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APL Deck 1 Vocab Flashcards

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A major unit in a drama or play.

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Act

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a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea about life.

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Allegory

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the repitition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.

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Aliteration

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a refrence in literary word to a person, place, or thing in history or another word of literature.

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Allusion

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a comperison of two or more like objects that suggest if they are alike in certain respects, they will be in other ways as well.

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Analogy

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brief account of an interesting incidient or event that usually is intended to entertain or make a pun

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anacedote

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an actors speech, directed to the audience, thats not suppose to be heard by other actors on stage.

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Aside

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repitition of vowel sounds within the line of poetry

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assounance

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the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing.

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Audience

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10
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writer of the book, play, article, or other text.

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Author

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Authors purpose is his reason for creating a particular work

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Authors purpose

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A form of nonfiction writing in which a person tell the story of his or her life

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autobiography

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poem that tells a story that is suppose to be snug or recitied

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Ballod

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the story of a persons life that is written by someone else

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biography

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a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry

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blank verse

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16
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unryhmed iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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17
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One event causes the other, the affter effect is the effect

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Cause and Effect

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18
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a person is responisble for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other lit.

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Character

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19
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A character in the story who decieves fustrates or works againsst the main character.

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anatagonist

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a picture or imitation of a person habits, physical apperance or mannerisms

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Caricture

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21
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a character who serves as a constant conflict to another character

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foil

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22
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a character whose actions are inspiring or noble

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Hero/Heroine

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23
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the characters who are central to the plot of the story,

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main character

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less important cahcracters

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minor characters

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he or she may also be refered to as the hero of work

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Novel, story, play, or poem

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26
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all the techniques writers use to create character

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characterization

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27
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a characters personality , a trait is not physical description of a character

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character triat

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28
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the author dircetly states the characters traits

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dynamic character

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29
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a character that changes throughout the story

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dynamic character

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30
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a character whom little info is provided

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flat character

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31
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the author does not directly state the characters triats, instead the author draws conclusions

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indirect characterization

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32
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a character fully described by the author

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round character

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33
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a character who does not change or who changes very little in the course of the story

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static character

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34
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The order at which events happen in time

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Chronological order

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35
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Process of reviewing what the reader has read after reading to fast and going back over

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Clarifying

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36
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A type of figurative language containing an over used expression

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Cliche

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37
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A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone and usually ends happily

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Comedy

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38
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Process of identifying similarities

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Comparison

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39
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A type of poetry that uses it’s physical and visual form to present it’s message.

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Concrete poetry

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40
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The tension or problem in the story

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Conflict

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41
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The dominant or most important conflict in the story

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Central conflict

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42
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The problem or struggle that exist between the main character and an outside force.

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External conflict

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43
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Struggle in the main characters mind

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Internal conflict

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44
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A readers process of relating to the content of a literary work to his or her own knowledge

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Connecting

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45
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The idea and feeling associated with a word as opposed to it’s dictionary definition

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Connotation

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46
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The repetition of constant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry

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Consonance

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47
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Hints or suggestions that may surround unfamiliar word or phrases and clarify there meaning

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Context clues

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48
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the process of pointing out differences between things

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contrast

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49
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a rhymed pair of lines in a poem

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couplet

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50
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exact or dictionary meaning of a word

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dennotation

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51
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form of language that is spoken in a particular place

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dialect

52
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the conversation between characters in a drama or narative or poem

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dialogue

53
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drama or plat that is meant to be preformed

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Drama

54
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combining several pieces of information to make an inference

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drawing conclusions

55
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literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her inter most thoughts and feelings

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dramatic dialogue

56
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type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one that has died.

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elegy

57
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incomplete syntax at the end of a line the meaning running over into the next line

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enjambment

58
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a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event

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epigram

59
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a brief tale that has a moral story or teaches a life lesson

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fable

60
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a statement that can be proved, reflects writers belief

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fact and opinion

61
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a work of literature that contains at least one fantastic or unreal element

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fantasy

62
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a rhyme of stressed end

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masculine rhyme

63
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a rhyme between stressed syllables

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feminine rhyme

64
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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

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antithesis

65
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a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

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anachronism

66
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repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next

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anadiplosis

67
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a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.

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Anagram

68
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Traditions, customs, and stories that are passed down within written culture

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Folklore

69
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A unit of meter within a line of poetry

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Foot

70
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Simple story passed down by generation by mouth

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Folktale

71
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Writer provides clues or hints that suggest or predict the future

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Foreshadowing

72
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Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme.

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Free verse

73
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generalization

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A broad statement about an entire group.

74
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Genre

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Type of category of literature

75
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A traditional form of Japanese poetry

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Haiku

76
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A couplet consisting of two concessive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought

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Herioic couplet

77
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Fiction that explores a past time period and may contain references to actual people and events in the past

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Historical fiction

78
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Fiction that explores the past time period and may contain references to actual people and events of the past

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Horror fiction

79
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The quality that provokes laughter or amusement

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Humor

80
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A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humerus effect

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Hyperbole

81
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See meter

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Iambic pentameter

82
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A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually says

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Idiom

83
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The use of words and phrases that appeal to the 5 senses

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Imagery

84
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Is a logical guess based on evidence in the text

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Inference

85
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Meeting in which one person ask another about personal matters, personal matters or both.

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Interview

86
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Contrast in what is expected and what actually happens.

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Irony

87
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Occurs when the speaker means something totally different then what he or she is saying.

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Verbal irony.

88
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Occurs when facts are not known to characters in a work of lit but are known by the audience

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Dramatic irony

89
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Suggest that some unknown force bring out dreadful events

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Cosmetic irony

90
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Difference between what’s expected and what actually worked out

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Irony of situation

91
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A story handed down from the past about a specific person

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Legend

92
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A short humorous poem composed of 5 lines

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Limerck

93
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The actual meaning of a word

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Literal meaning

94
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Poem used to express emotions or feelings

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Lyric poem

95
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The most important idea the writers wishes to express

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Main idea

96
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Specific type of autobiography doesn’t cover authors entire life

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Memoir

97
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Type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two unalike things

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Metaphor

98
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The regular patter of accented and in accented syllables. Regular is know as foot
Accented is x
In accented is u
Both are identified by \

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Meter

99
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Words that rhyme at the end of the verse

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Eye or terminal rhymes

100
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Word that appear to rhyme but don’t

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Eye rhymes

101
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Rhyme found within a line of poetry

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Internal rhyme

102
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Near rhyme half rhyme end vowels are the same.

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Slant rhyme

103
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End rhyme

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Rhyme scheme

104
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Flow of sounds created by in stressed and stress syllables in poetry

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Rhythem

105
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Mockery or verbal irony

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Sarcasm

106
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Work that targets human vices and follies

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Satire

107
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Branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of words

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Semantics

108
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Sum of choices the author makes blending diction and literary devices together

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Style

109
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A word or clause that compliments a verb

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Subject compliment

110
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Contains a subject and a verb but can’t stand alone

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Subordinate clause

111
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Anything that stands for something else

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Symbol

112
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The way the author chooses to join words into phrases

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Syntax

113
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Central idea

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Theme

114
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A sentence or group of sentences that represent the authors thoughts.

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Thesis

115
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Describes authors attitude towards his material

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Tone

116
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A word or phrase that links different ideas.

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Transition

117
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Ironic minimalizing of fact presents something less significant than it is

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Understatement

118
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Intellectual amusing language that suprised and delights

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Wit

119
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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

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theme

120
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In a literary work, a motif can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. Motif and theme are linked in a literary work but there is a difference between them. In a literary piece, a motif is a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea or message.

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motif

121
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words that are written appear to rhyme, but when spoken do not.

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eye rhyme

122
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a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society

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satire

123
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the process of searching through writing for a particular fact or piece of information

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searching

124
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words and phrases that help readers see hear smell taste

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sensory details

125
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distinctive style that uses a system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines, rhyme scheme or pattern. has two main styles

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sonnet

126
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written in iambic pentameter, which ask questions or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a b b a abba total of 14 lines

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petrarchan

127
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Elizabethan sonnet , Also called: English sonnet a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g

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Shakespearean sonnet

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