English Terms 9 Flashcards
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Ellipses
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Three dots indicating on omission or pause
“I smell a rat, but cannot walk away…”
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Allegory
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A story having multiple symbolic aspects
“The blue light of the television flickers on the cave wall. The fellow crawls out of the cave,what does he see?”
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Point of View
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The perspective from which a story is told
1st
2nd
3rd
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Paradox
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Contradiction of ideas in a work of literature
“Are the roses not also-even as the owl is-excessive?”
