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Concepts In Literature Flashcards

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A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or ideas

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Allegory

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A major character who opposes the protagonist in a story in a story or play

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Antagonist

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The repetition of first consonants in a group of words as in “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”

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Alliteration

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A character who represents a certain type of person

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Archetype

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The repetition of vowel sounds as in “Days wane away”

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Assonance

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An author establishes character.

An author may directly describe the appearance and personality of character or show it through action or dialogue

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Characterization

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The overall feeling of a work, which is related to tone and mood

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Atmosphere

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The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak

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Climax

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Unryhmed lines of poetry usually in a iambic pentameter.

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Blank verse

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The elemtents that create a plot. The ____ can be internal (within one character) or external (among or between characters, society, and/or nature)

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Conflict

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To compare and contrast is to explain how two things are alike and how they are different

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Contrast

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A poem with a fictional narrator addressed to someone who identity the audience knows, but who does not say anything.

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Dramatic Monologue

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A pair of rhyming lines in a poem often set off from the rest of the poem

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Couplets

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14
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A poeam mourning the dead

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Elegy

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The resolution of the conflict in a plot after the climax. It also refers to the resolution of thhe action in a strog or play after the principal drama is resolved.

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Denouement

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Rhyming words that are at the ends of their respective lines

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End rhyme

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A reference to something or someone often literary.

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Allusion

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A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure

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Epic

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The point of view of writing which the narrator refers to himself as “I”

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First Person Point of View

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A story that illustrates a moral often using animals as the character

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Fable

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A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.

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Foreshadowing

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Language that does not mean exaclty what it says.

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Figurative Language

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Poetry witth no set meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme

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Free verse

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A kind of style art or literature. Some literary are mysteries, westerns, and romances.

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Genre

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The use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, smells or taste.

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Imagery

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A huge exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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A rhyme that occurs within one line such as “He’s King of the Swing”

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Internal rhyme

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Ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressesd

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Iambic pentameter

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Language that conveys a certain ideas by saying just he opposite

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Irony

30
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Language that means exactly what it says

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Literal Language

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The pattern of stressesd and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem

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Meter

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A type of poetry that expresses the poet’s emotions

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Lyric

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A long speech bynone character in a play ot story

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Monologue

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A comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as” such as “He’s a rock” or “I am an island.”

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Metaphor

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The emotional atmosphere of a given piece of writing

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Mood

36
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A theme or pattern that recurs in a work

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Motif

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A seeming contradiction

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Paradox

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A legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena

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Myth

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A humorous, exaggerated imitation of another work

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Parody

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The usenof words that sound like what they mean such as “buzz”

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Onomatopoeia

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Giving inanimate object human characteristics

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Personification

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The action in the story

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Plot

43
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The use of a words in a way that plays on its different meanings

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Pun

44
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Writing organized into sentences and paragraphs. In other words, normal writing-not poetry

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Prose

45
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A four-line stanza

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Quatrain

46
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The main character of a novel, play ot story

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Protagonist

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A question not meant to be answered such as “Why cant we jsut get along?”

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Rhetorical Question

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Language that conveys a certain idea by saying he opposite such as if it’s raining outside and you say “My what a beautiful day”

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Sarcasm

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A comparison that uses “like” or “as”

Example: I’m as hungry as a wolf

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Simile

50
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A work that makes fun of something or someone

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Satire

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A monologue in which a character expresses his or her thoughts to the audience and does not inend the other characters to hear them

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Soliloquy

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Imagery that has to do with something you can see, hear, taste, smell or feel.

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Sensory imagery

53
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A fourteen-line poem written iambic pentameter. Different kinds of sonnets have different rhyme schemes.

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Sonnet

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A section of poetry separated from the sections before and after it; a verse “paragraph”

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Stanza

55
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The central idea of a work

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Theme

56
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A line of action secondary to the main story

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Subplot

57
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The author’s attitude toward his or her subject. For example, a tone could be pessimistic, optimiuor angry

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Tone

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The use of one things to represent another. Eg: dove - peace

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Symbolism

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The narrative point of view wheter it’s in the first, second, or third person

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Voice

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