exam flash cards

Question 1

Mood

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A storie’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes

Question 2

Connotation

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All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their denotations (dictionary definition)

Question 3

Diction

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A writer’s or speaker’s choices of word. Atyle .

Question 4

Colloquial

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Conversational

Question 5

Pompous

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Arrogant

Question 6

Simile

Answer 6

Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as “Like”, “As”, “Resembles”, Or “Than”

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing, without the use of words “Like”, “As”, “Resembles”, Or “Than”

Question 8

Allusion

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Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, of pop culture.

Question 9

Anecdote

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Very, very brief story, usually told to make a point.

Question 10

Personification

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Kind of metaphor in which a non human thing or quality is talked about as us if it were human

Question 11

Alliteration

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Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words that are close together in a poem.

Question 12

Consonance

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Special type of alliteration in the consonants of words are repeated but the vowels are different.,

Question 13

Assonance

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Repetition iof similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds. Especially close words In a poem.

Question 14

Irony

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Contrast between expectation and reality, between what is said and what really is,

Question 15

Verbal irony

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A writer or speaker says one thing but actually means something completely different.

Question 16

Situational irony

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When there is a contrast in between what would seem appropriate and what really happens.

Question 17

Dramatic irony

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When the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.

Question 18

Tone

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Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or audience.

Question 19

Name some examples of tone

Answer 19

Sarcastic, endearing, cautious, humurous, critical

Question 20

Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

Question 21

Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

Question 22

Paradox

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Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth.

Question 23

Juxtaposition

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A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions etc. are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts

Question 24

Ambiguity

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An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways .

Question 25

Euphemism

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an idiomatic expression which loses its literal meanings and refers to something else in order to hide its unpleasantness.

Question 26

Climax

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Moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot

Question 27

Characterization

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a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.

Question 28

Antecedent

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The word that a pronoun refers to.

Question 29

1st person point of view

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One of the characters is telling the storey. Uses I.

Question 30

2nd person point of view.

Answer 30

Told with you. Last night, you sliopped on a cucumber and fell on an avocado the size of the sun.

Question 31

3rd person limited point of view

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The narrator plays no part in the story, zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of just one character?

Question 32

Omniscient Point of view

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the voice in which a story is written that is outside the story and that knows everything about the characters and events in the story

Question 33

Unreliable narrator

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An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.

Question 34

Theme

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Central idea of a work of literature. Eg. Love, childhood, or death.

Question 35

Imagery/sensory details

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Language that appeals to the senses

Question 36

Factual details

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Details based on fact that ground the literary work.

Question 37

Figurative details

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the use of words or phrases in a manner where the literal meaning of the words is not true or does not make sense, but implies a non-literal meaning which does make sense or that could be true

Question 38

Dominant impression

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the principal effect the author wishes to create for the audience.

Question 39

Type of sentences

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Sentence fragments, independent clause, rhetorical question, imperative sentence (a command), and introductory phrase