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First Test: Basics Flashcards

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Exposition

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Describes and sets up the story, introduces characters, setting, and conflict.

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Rising Action

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Related events that develop conflict and climax.

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Climax

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The turning point of the story.

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Falling Action

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After the climax, where the tension starts to decrease, and lead to the ending.

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Resolution

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The ending where all questions are answered.

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Alliteration

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A repetition of the same first letter in a sentence. All the words start with the same letter.

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Allusion

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A reference to something in the outside world.

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Antagonist

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The villain

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Characterization

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How a character develops through the story.

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Conflict

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Struggle between opposing forces.

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Diction

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Word choice and phrasing

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Figurative Language

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Language representing one thing with something dissimilar.

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Foreshadowing

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A hint to what will happen in the future

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Genre

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A type a book; Fantasy, Sci-fi, Nonfiction

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration to a meaning

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Imagery

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The language that appeals to the 5 senses.

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Metaphor

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comparison without like or as

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Personification

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giving human features to something not human

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Point of View

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a point from where the story is told

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Protagonist

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the main character, hero

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Setting

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time and place

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Simile

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comparison with like or as

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Stereotype

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standard of something that might not be true

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Symbolism

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person, place, time, or thing that represents something

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Theme

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The MAin idea of the story

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Man vs. Man

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Marvel, Hunger Games

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Man vs. Nature

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Hatchet

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Man vs. Society

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The Giver

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Man vs. G(g)od

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Percy Jackson

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Dialogue

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speech between characters

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