B-C Flashcards

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Construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance.

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Balance

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I waited patiently for the taxi; he drove nonchalantly by me.

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Balance

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Process by which an unhealthy emotional state produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored.*Peacefulness

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Catharsis

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“Isn’t it pretty to think so?” (Hemingway)

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Catharsis

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The method an author uses to develop characters in a work. In direct characterization, the author straightforwardly states the character’s traits. With indirect characterization, those traits are implied through what the character says, does, how the character dresses, interacts with other characters, etc.

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Characterization

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“He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.” (Hemingway)

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Characterization

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Literary device that cuts tension in the middle of tragedy. Not just to be funny.

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Comic Relief

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Drunken Porter in Macbeth

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Comic Relief

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Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities.

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Concrete Language

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“After a while we came out of the mountains, and there were trees along both sides of the road, and a stream and ripe fields of grain, and the road went on, very white and straight ahead, and then lifted to a little rise, and off on the left was a hill with an old castle, with buildings close around it and a field Of grain going right up to the walls and shifting in the wind.” (Hemingway)

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Concrete Language

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“What’s the matter? You sick?”“Yes.”

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Connotation

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  1. Rather than the dictionary definition, the associations associated with a word 2. Implied meaning
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Connotation

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Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.

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Consonance

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“Isn’T iT preTTy To think so?” (Hemingway)

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Consonance

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Balance

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Construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance.

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Balance

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I waited patiently for the taxi; he drove nonchalantly by me.

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Catharsis

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Process by which an unhealthy emotional state produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored.*Peacefulness

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Catharsis

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“Isn’t it pretty to think so?” (Hemingway)

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Characterization

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The method an author uses to develop characters in a work. In direct characterization, the author straightforwardly states the character’s traits. With indirect characterization, those traits are implied through what the character says, does, how the character dresses, interacts with other characters, etc.

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Characterization

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“He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.” (Hemingway)

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Comic Relief

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Literary device that cuts tension in the middle of tragedy. Not just to be funny.

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Comic Relief

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Drunken Porter in Macbeth

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Concrete Language

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Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities.

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Concrete Language

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“After a while we came out of the mountains, and there were trees along both sides of the road, and a stream and ripe fields of grain, and the road went on, very white and straight ahead, and then lifted to a little rise, and off on the left was a hill with an old castle, with buildings close around it and a field Of grain going right up to the walls and shifting in the wind.” (Hemingway)

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Connotation

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“What’s the matter? You sick?”“Yes.”

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Connotation

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  1. Rather than the dictionary definition, the associations associated with a word 2. Implied meaning
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Consonance

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Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.

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Consonance

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“Isn’T iT preTTy To think so?” (Hemingway)