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

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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

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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

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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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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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Poetry

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Closed form Poetry

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Poetry with rules (rythm, rhyme, iambic)

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Open form poetry

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free verse

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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

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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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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