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Basic Figurative Devices Flashcards

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1
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Symbolism

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Something concrete represents something abstract.

Ex. Full moon =completion

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Irony

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  • Verbal Irony: one thing said, opposite intended
  • Dramatic Irony: reader knows vs. character doesn’t
  • Situational Irony: expectation vs. Reality
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Deus Ex Machina

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Implausible event occurs to resolve a complication in the plot

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Dilemma

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Two undesirable choices a character must make

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In Medias Res

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No introduction, reader is plunged into action

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Tone

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Authors attitude towards his or her subject and audience

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Unity

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Author uses material in the best arrangement and order.

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being real or true.

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Juxtaposition

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Side by side contrast for dramatic effect

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Paradox

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Statement which seems contradictory or absurd yet makes good sense

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Style

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Author expresses his or her thoughts

-diction, sentence structure, imagery, etc.

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Form

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Shape or structure of a story includes
~techniques
~style

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Techniques

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Stories linked by devices such as exposition, dialogue, flashback, etc.

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Omniscient POV

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  • 3rd person
  • author is all knowing (tells us about characters)
  • author interprets behaviours
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Limited omniscient POV

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  • uses 3rd person but told from a character

- Narrates what the character feels but no other characters

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Objective POV

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The author records what is seen or heard but cannot comment about it

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First Person POV

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1st person

Author disappears into one of the characters

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Character

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  • direct: author tells us directly what character is like
  • indirect: authors shows the character in action

Must be (motivated, plausible and consistent)

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Protagonist

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Central character in the conflict

20
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Antagonist

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Force that opposes the central character

21
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Flat character

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Characterized by One or two traits

22
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Stereotype character

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Familiar and predictable (shy old maid)

23
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Stock character

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Occurs repeatedly in literary genre

Western=sheriff

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Round character

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complex and many sided

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Static Character

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Doesn’t change in personality

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Developing/Dynamic character

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Significant change occurs in character

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Plausible character

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Believable and lifelike

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Foil

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One who Contrast another character in traits

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Consistent character

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No change without motivation

Scrooge

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Motivated character

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Believable reasons for change (

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Theme and issues

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Theme: central idea/thought

  • generalization about life
  • expresses statement
  • unifying concept
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Antécédent action

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Opening of story

33
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Exposition

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Outlines background info

(Includes setting, times, place, atmosphere , foreshadowing) and

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Setting

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Develops story’s meaning

  • add to conflict
  • reveal a character
  • used for atmosphere
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Atmosphere

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Overall emotional effect or mood of the literary work

Mood: feeling in the reader

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Foreshadowing

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Suggestion of future events

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Plot

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The sequence of events in the story based on conflict

38
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Initial incident

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Central conflict begins

39
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Rising action

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Conflict develops and complications occur

40
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Climax

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Point of highest suspense

41
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Denouement

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Wraps up story and ties in loose ends

42
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Conflict

Part of plot

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  • man vs. Man
  • man vs. Self
  • man vs. Society
  • man vs. Environment (nature)
  • man vs. Supernatural
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Flashback

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Shifts from story to reveal a change in character or important point

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