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Catharsis

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Purge and express

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Allusion

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An indirect reference

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Antagonist

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The villain of the story

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Protagonist

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The main character and the “good” one

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Archetype

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The typic something…

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Motif

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Something that reapers again and again in a piece of literature

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Foil

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A character that has traits that make other character’s traits to resemble

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Conflict

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Struggle between two opposing forces

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External conflict

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The main character against other force that does not depend on him

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Internal conflict

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When the opposing forces come from the inside of the character showing self contradiction

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Diction

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The way you say or write something, the words you use and that stuff

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Flashback

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Memories

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Genre

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Type of literature

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Fiction/non fiction

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False or real

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Myth

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Story completely made up, heroic figures and used to explain something

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Irony

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When you say something in a way that does not really mean exactly what yo used but other thing you wanna express

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Juxtaposition

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The author puts two different ideas to create contrast in the same place

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Monologue

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Narration is done by only one character (solo)

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Narrator

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The one that tells the story

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Paradox

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An idea that contradicts itself having no answer

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Plot

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Circumstances in which the story takes place

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Pov

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Point of view

Perspective

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Satarire

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A narration in a humorous way to make fun of something

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Similie

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Comparison using as or like

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Theme

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Main ideas/ shows a learning and lesson

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Drama

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Narration that contains situations that create feelings on the audience

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Aside

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When one of the characters turns to the audience and says something’s as if the rest of the characters are not listening

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Soliloquy

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Type of monologue many ideas and in disorder

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Hubris

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When it is shown that arrogance will bring the character to his end

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Epiphany

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A revelation in the story

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Alliteration

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The same letter repeats in the words of a line

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Caesura

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The pause in the middle of a line

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Internal

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The end of the rhyme

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Enjambment

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Many ideas together with no pause

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Assonance

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When the first letter of the words are the same vowel

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Consonance

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When the first letter of the words of a line start with the same consonant

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Denotation

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Symbol

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Connotation

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Something that shows an idea

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Couplet

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Two lines with the same rhyme together

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Sonnet

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Type of poem

AB AB CD CD EF EF GG

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Quatrain

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Four lines poem

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Iambic pentameter

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Is a metrical used in poetry

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Imagery

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Making a serie of images in your head when you see or hear or read something

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Metaphor

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Something is applied to something to make a comparison by not giving it the same meaning

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Meter

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Rhythm of the accents and Syllables

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Mood

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The circumstances of the surroundings

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Tone

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How you say something g

Characteristic

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Purpose

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Objective

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Audience

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The public

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Onomatopoeia

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Comics special effects

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Personification

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Including something in your work to make it special

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Prose

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A way of writing

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Pun

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Like using a word that has two meanings in a fun way

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Setting

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The surroundings

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Oxymoron

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Two words on an idea completely opposite

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Rhyme

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Exact end thy makes words to sound likely

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Symbol

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Image or object that represents something

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Dialect

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Special local language

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Euphemism

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Polite way of saying something

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Cliche

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Typic situation

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Syntax

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Resume/ summary

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Explicit

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Like really god explained

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Implicit

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Still there are things we do not understand or know

English Semester 1 (2 decks)

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