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EOCT Review Flashcards

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Genre

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A category of composition. Each genre has a particular style, form, and content.

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Dialogue

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Character’s conversations with other characters

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Interior monologue

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Internal, unspoken thoughts

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Direct characterization

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The reader is told what a character is like; a speaker or narrator describes what he or she thinks about a character.

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Indirect characterization

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Occurs when a reader must infer what a character is like

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Setting

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When and where a narrative such as a story, drama, or poem takes place

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Structure

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Specific pattern or plot structure

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Chronological

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The story is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end

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Epistolary novel

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A novel written in the form of letters, diary/journal entries, postcards, or e-mail

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Frame narrative

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A story is told within a story

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In medias res

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“In the middle of things.” The novel or story begins with a significant moment.

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Types of conflict:

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  • person vs. person
  • person vs. nature
  • person vs. self
  • person vs. society
  • person vs. machine
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Point of view

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perspective from which a story is told

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First person

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The events are told by a character in the story using his or her own words. Uses “I” and “me”

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Second person

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The narrator addresses the reader directly using the word you.

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Third person limited

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A speaker outside the action narrates the events using third-person pronouns. The narrator tells the events from the perspective of one specific character, focusing on this character’s thoughts and feelings.

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Third person omniscient

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A speaker outside the action narrates the events. An all-knowing narrator not only tells what happens, but also may interpret events and describe the thoughts and feelings of any character.

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Tone

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The author’s attitude toward the audience or subject. Established by the author through diction, syntax, and rhetoric

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Diction

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word choice

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Syntax

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the order words are placed in a sentence

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Rhetoric

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language choices and techniques used to communicate perspective and to modify the perspectives of others.

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Mood

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The overall feeling or emotion the author establishes by the choice of words and language, the actions of the characters, and the setting.

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Theme

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the deeper message of a text. It refers to a universal statement about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text.

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Tragedy

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A serious play that ends in disaster and sorrow

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Comedy

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A lighthearted play intended to amuse the audience. Comedies usually end happily

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Political drama

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a drama or play with a political component, advocating a certain point of view or describing an event.

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Modern drama

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explores themes of alienation and disconnectedness. Strives to let the audience feel as if it is peering in on real-life situations and experiencing real-life emotions.

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Theatre of the absurd

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Plays written in the 1950s and 1960s with the basic belief that human existence is absurd, or without meaning. The play itself often lacks the usual conventions of plot, character, or setting.

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Dramatic conventions

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rules the actors and audience follow in play

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Dramatic irony

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refers to situations in which the audience knows more than the character onstage

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Monologue

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Long speech by one character in which the character speaks about his or her thoughts and feelings

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Rhyme

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the repetition of terminal sounds in two or more words

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End rhyme

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occurs at the ends of lines of poetry. It is the most common type of rhyme

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Internal rhyme

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rhyme within a line of poetry

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Slant rhyme

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Occurs when words include similar but not identical sounds. They are also called a near rhyme, half rhyme, or off rhyme.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of one initial sound, usually a consonant, in more than one word.

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Rhyme scheme

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the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.

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Fixed form

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written in traditional verse and generally rhymes. Some fixed form poems have specific requirements on length, rhyme scheme, and number of syllables.

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Free form

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follows no specific guidelines about rhyme, meter, or length.

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Blank verse

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is a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, a pattern of five iambic feet per line. An iambic foot is one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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Informational text

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writing that explains or informs

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Argumentative or persuasive writing

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reasoning to influence people’s ideas or actions

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Literary nonfiction

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writing that tells a story and often employs the literary devices found in stories and novels

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Implicit

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An idea that is not stated outright

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Infer

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to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence

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Explicit

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idea or message is fully expressed or revealed by the writer

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Native American period

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an oral tradition of song and stories. Any written literature is an account of these songs and stories. Focuses on the natural world and the sacred world and the importance of land and place.

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Colonial period

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During this period, the newly arrived colonists were creating villages and towns and establishing new governments, while protesting the old regime of the British. Literature of this period reflects the religious influence of the Puritans. Famous writers include William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Jonathan Edwards.

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Revolutionary Period and Nationalism

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American writers focused on explaining and justifying the Revolution. Political writings by Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson belong to this time period. Americans found time to ponder what it really meant to be American. An even greater focus on nationalism, patriotism, and American identity arose

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Romanticism and Transcendentalism

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Romanticism was a philosophical attitude that developed in reaction to previous decades in which reason and rational thought dominated. Writers celebrated individualism, nature, imagination, creativity, and emotions.

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Realism

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This period is one of the most turbulent and creative in American history. Hinting at the modern movement yet to come, writers turned to realism in an effort to articulate the tensions and complex events of the time. Authors made it their mission to convey the reality of life, harsh as it might seem.

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Naturalism

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An extension of realism, writers during this period focused on grim reality, observing characters much as scientists might observe animals. They sought to discover the natural laws that govern human lives. Unlike the Transcendentalists, Naturalists viewed nature as indifferent, not noble.

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Modern period

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The independent, individualistic spirit that was distinctively American seemed threatened. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot explored themes of alienation and change and confronted people’s fears and disillusionment.

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Irony

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a form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of the words.

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Sarcasm

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Verbal irony

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Situational irony

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refers to developments that are far from what is expected or believed to be deserved

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Satire

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a form of writing that ridicules or scorns people, practices, or institutions in order to expose their failings. Used to make people think critically about a subject, although satires can be written for amusement

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Understatement

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a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it really is

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Simile

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Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or than

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Metaphor

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Implied comparison between two unrelated things

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Personification

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Gives human characteristic to an un-human object

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Hyperbole

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Excessive exaggeration

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Idiom

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Saying specific to a culture

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Denotation

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Definition of a word

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Connotation

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Meaning or idea of a word

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Ethos

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Uses appeal to ethic and credibility

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Pathos

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Uses appeal to emotions

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Logos

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Uses appeal to reason and logic

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Credible source

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Unbiased information

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Thesis

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Main message of a piece of writing

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Parallelism

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The phrases or sentences share the same grammatical structure

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Repetition

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same word or phrase throughout writing

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Analogy

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compares two things to each other, but is more extensive than a simile. Continues throughout writing

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