English Flashcards

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Round character

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Highly developed character with many traits.

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Character

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Individuals who participate in action of literary work.

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Flat character

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Character that exhibits few traits and not well developed.

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Static character

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One who remains the same through out the story.

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Dynamic character

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Character who changes through out story.

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Indirect characterization

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When an author indirectly talks about them like physical appearance.

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Direct charictization

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Author tell you exactly what there like.

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Theme

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Underline message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader sometimes must be inferred.

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Protagonist

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Main character in a work of littchure involved in the central conflict

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Antagonist

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The opposite force of the protagonist.

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Illusion

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Indirect reference to famous person or a litturery work.

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Diction

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Writer or speaker form of words

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PLOT

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The secuence of events that happen in a story

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Setting

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Time and place of the action of the work

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Foil

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A character who provides a striking contrast to another character.

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Foreshadowing

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Hint and clues that will suggest later events in a story.

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Tone

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The attitude take towards a subject

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Narrator

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One of the character and we as the reader know

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Third omniscient

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All knowing everything and every body

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Third person limited

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Know what one character knows

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Situational irony

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What expected to happens is the opposite of what happens

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Verbal irony

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Speaker says one thing but means another

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Dramatic irony

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When reader knows something the character dose not know

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Flashback

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Author interrupts a story to events that happened at a previous time

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Imagery

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Language that appels to the sences touch, tast, hearing, sight,smell

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Metaphore

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Comparing two things not using like or as.

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Simile

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Comparing two things using like or as

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Rising action

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When the conflict developers story is closer to the climax complication arise

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Climax

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The point of maximum interest in a story turning point in a story

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Falling action

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The events that fallow the climax and shows the results of the important decisions in the story

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Resolution

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How the story ends

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Suspense

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The uncertainty or ansity reader feels as they wait to find out what happens next

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Hyperbolie

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An exaggeration

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Paradox

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Seemenly harmless statement that may suggest an important truth.

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Symbol

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Person place object or activity that stands for so thing beyond itself

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Alliteration

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Repition of Constance sounds at begging of words

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Assence

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Repition in vowel sounds

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Onamotapia

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The use of words that echo their mening like echo hop bang

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Intrnal conflict

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One that occures within a character

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External conflict

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Character in confict with an outside force