Domain-Specific and Academic Terms Flashcards
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Adjectives
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Adverbs
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Allusion
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Ambiguity
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Analogy
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Analysis
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Antagonist
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Antecedent
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What the pronouns is referring to
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Antithesis
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Seeing opposites as parallels
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Atmosphere
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Catharsis
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Purging of emotions
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Character
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Chronology
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Beginning, Middle, End
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Claim / Thesis
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Climax
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Comparison
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Conceit
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Extended Metaphor
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External Conflict
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Internal Conflict
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Diction
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Drama
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Dramatic Monologue
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Dramatic Situation / Moment
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Epiphany
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Coming to a realization
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Evidence
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Exposition
Beginning of story where you are presented characters / settings / etc.
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Extended Metaphor
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Fiction
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Figurative Language
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First - Person Narrator
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Flashback
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Foil
Opposites
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Foreshadowing
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Function
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Genre
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Hyperbole
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Imagery
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Inconsistencies
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Infer
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In Media Res
Starting in the middle of the story
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Interpretation
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Irony
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Juxtaposition
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Line of Reasoning
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Literal vs. Figurative Meaning
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Literary Argument
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Metaphor
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Mood
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Motif
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Narrative
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Narrator Bias
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Narrator Reliability
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Nuance
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Paradox
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Parallel Structure
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Patterns and breaks in patterns
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Personification
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Perspective
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Plot
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Poetry
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Closed form Poetry
Poetry with rules (rythm, rhyme, iambic)
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Open form poetry
free verse
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POV
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Pronoun references
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Protagonist
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Reasoning
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Referent
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Reliability
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Repetition
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Resolution
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Setting
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Shift
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Simile
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Soliloquy
Speech in a play
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Stanza
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Stream of consciousness
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Structure
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Symbols
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Synonyms
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Syntax
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Tempo
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Tense (grammatical)
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Theme
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Third person narrator
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Third person omnicient
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Tone
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Understatement
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Amplify
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Associate
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Clarify
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Exemplify
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Qualify
