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Final: Literary Terms Flashcards

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

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Allusion

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the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

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Diction

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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sarcasm or being sarcastic

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Verbal Irony

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when you know something that a characters doesn’t know

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Dramatic Irony

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when something happens is opposite of what is expected from the story

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Situational Irony

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

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Metaphor

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a literary composition

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Motif

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written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

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Prose

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid the words “like” or “as” are typically used

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Simile

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the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

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Symbolism

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the central idea of a work of literature; a topic

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Theme

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a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved

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Thesis

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the author’s attitude toward the subject

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Tone

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it is a novel of letters

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Epistolary Novel

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a literary technique that sometimes serve as a companion piece to a story with in a story

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Frame Tale

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What is the five types of sensory imagery?

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Imagery Auditory 
Imagery Gustatory
Imagery Kinesthetic 
Imagery Olfactory
Imagery Visual
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pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables

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Meter

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an image that is form from a sound in a story

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Imagery Auditory

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an image that is related to sense of taste

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Imagery Gustatory

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an image that is related to the sense of touch in a story

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Imagery Kinesthetic

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an image that is related to the sense of smell

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Imagery Olfactory

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a picture created in words

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Imagery Visual

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a line of verse with five metrical feet each enclosing of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

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Iambic Pentameter

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

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Couplet

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a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

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Quatrain

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set in a time earlier than the main story

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Flashback

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the quality of being pleasing to the ear, esp. through a harmonious combination of words

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Euphony

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a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

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Cacophony

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word

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Alliteration

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agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions; repetition of constant

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Consonance

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the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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Assonance

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the order pattern of rhymes t the end of the lines of a poem or verse

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Rhyme Scheme

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a statement that appears to be contradictory but reveals a hidden truth

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Paradox

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the opposite of what is expected

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Irony

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the overall feelings or emotion

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Mood

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract qualities in human form

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Personifiation

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used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story

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Setting

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writing arranged with ametrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

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Verse

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the circumstances that form the setting for an event statement or idea

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Context

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the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and critize people’s stupidity or vices

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Satire

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