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Big Vocab Test Flashcards

1
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Irony

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🛑When the unexpected is happening

🛑(usually the exact opposite of what you think should happen)

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Dramatic Irony

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🛑When the reader know something that the characters do not

🛑Are usually found in a play or a movie

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3
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Situational irony

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🛑A surprise ending

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4
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Verbal irony

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🛑Saying one thing but meaning something different

🛑Sarcasm

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5
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Main character

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🛑The person who the action is focused on

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6
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Static character

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🛑One who does not go through any important internal changes

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Dynamic character

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🛑Character who goes through an important internal change

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Protagonist or main character is dynamic

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🛑true

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Flat character

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🛑Shows only one single personality trait and stays that way

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Round character

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🛑Show several sides to their personality

🛑complex like real people

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Setting

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🛑Time or place where the story takes place

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Theme

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🛑The central idea explored in any piece of writing

🛑EX// LOVE,COURAGE,LOYALTY

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Universal themes

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🛑good vs evil

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14
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Dialogue

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🛑when people talk to eachother in a story

🛑used to move the story forward

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15
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Hyperbole

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🛑extreme exaderation

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Simile

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🛑comparing 2 unlike things using like or as

17
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Metaphore

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🛑comparison of 2 unlike things not using like or as

18
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Mood

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🛑feeling the poem creates in the reader

19
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Tone

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🛑way the author protrays the story

🛑how the author feels

20
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Allusions

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🛑reference to someone or something commenly known

21
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Foreshadowing

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🛑advance hint in what comes later in the story

22
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Alliteration

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🛑SAME SOUND SENTENCES

23
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Characterization

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🛑The way the author developes the character

24
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Plot

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🛑Sequence of events that make up the content of the book or story

25
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Fiction

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🛑Story that is made up

26
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Onomatopoeia

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🛑using words for sounds

27
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Fable

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🛑animals are main characters

28
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Exposition

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🛑Part of the story that introduced the important background info

29
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Rising action

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🛑Part of the story that builds up to the climax

🛑conflict is developed

30
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Climax

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🛑turning point of the story

🛑Higest intensity or drama

31
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Falling action

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🛑after climax

🛑Conflict between protagonist and antagonist unravels

🛑Final moment of suspense

32
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Resolution

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🛑Ending of the story

33
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Allegory

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🛑A story that shows an idea or abstract thought using material forms

34
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Internal conflict

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🛑Problem within oneself

35
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Prose

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🛑Ordinary speech or writing

🛑Not poetry

🛑Does not have structure

36
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X ternal conflict

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🛑Conflict between a character and another character

37
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Novel

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🛑long work of fiction

38
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Satire

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🛑Sorry that pokes fun at or makes of a serious situation

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