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English Literary And Language Elements/terms Flashcards

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Plot

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A pattern of carefully selected events that create a conflict

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Exposition/introduction

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The begging of a story where characters, background, and setting are introduced

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Rising action

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A series of events that build from the conflict

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Climax

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The turning point in a story

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Falling action

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The part after the climax that leads to the resolution

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Resolution/denouement

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The final solution or outcome of the story

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Setting

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The general locale

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Characterization

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The authors means of conveying to the reader a characters personality, life values ext

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Flat/static character

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A simplified character who does not change

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Round/dynamic character

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Character depicted with such slept that he or she seems like a real person

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Narrator

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The person telling the story

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Point of view

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The position from which a story is narrated

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First person POV

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The narrator is the person in the story who can only reaveal their personal thoughts and feeling

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Third person POV

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The narrator is an outsider and can only report what he or she sees and hears

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Omniscient POV

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The narrator is an all knowing outsider who can see or tell what everyone is thinking and/or feeling

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Conflict

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A struggle between opposing forces which is the driving force of the story

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Theme

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The central idea of the work

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Protagonist

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The main character in a story who had most of the narrators attention

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Antagonist

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The person or thing who is working against the protagonist

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Foil

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Emphasize opposing traits in another character

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Allegory

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Where every side of the story is representative

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Allusion

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Referencing something famous

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Foreshadowing

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Suggesting

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Tone

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Writers attitude

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Mood

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The feeling

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Diction

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The choice of language

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Irony

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An implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

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Verbal irony

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When an author says one thing and means another

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something a character in the book doesn’t know

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Situational irony

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A discrepancy between the expected results and the actual results

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Paradox

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A seeming contradiction that contains an element of truth

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Epiphany

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A sudden revolution of the truth

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Motif

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An often repeated element

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Realism

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Literature that tries to represent life as it really is by paying close attention

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Sarcasm

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The use of praise to mock someone

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Satire

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A literary ton used to make fin at ridicule humans

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Tragedy

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The hero is destroyed by some flaw or weakness

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Tragic hero

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Charecter that faces an inner struggle because of their weakness or flaw

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Denotations

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The dictionary definition of the word

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Connotation

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The suggested or implied meaning of a word

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Colloquialism

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A conversational familiar or Informal expression

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Slang

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Informal non standard “colorful”

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Cliche

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A overused expressin

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Euphemism

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A soften bland vague or totally bland vague or totally inoffensive expression

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Jargon

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The special vocabulary of a particular activity or group

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Dialect

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A regional dialect of language

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Idiom

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An accepted phrase or expression having a different meaning from the literal

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Figurative language

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Expressions that form pictures and/or use imagery

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Archaic

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Out of date words

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Obsolete

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A term no longer in use but of historical interest

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