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L.A. Midterms Flashcards

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H.O.T.

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Hook, Overview, Thesis

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Body Paragraphs

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Topic sentences, ICE, clinchers

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R.I.C.

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Restate thesis, illustrate the main points, clincher

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Statement that catches readers interest

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Hook

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This tells reader facts before thesis. Introduce topic, needed to make sense

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Overview

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Specific debatable claim made by writer about subject in question. List of main points about essay

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Thesis

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Final sentence, should be interesting and engaging closing line

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Clincher

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I.C.E.

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Introduce, Citation, Explain

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—- the quote into your own sentence

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Roll

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Introduce the quote with a complete sentence using a —–

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Colon

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—- by introducing and writing the material in your own words, citing with just parenthesis

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Paraphrase

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You use this acronym to explain

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SPIES

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S.P.I.E.S. means

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Significant, purpose, Important, effect, suggest

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This is were you will have the chance to explain the point you are making in the paragraph. Good paragraph will have 2-3 of these

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Supporting/elaborating details

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Should introduce the topic being addressed in paragraph

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Topic sentence

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Genre of literature based on imaginary characters and events

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Fiction

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Series of events in a story (exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, denouement)

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Plot

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Beginning of a story; establishes setting, characters, and basic situation

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Exposition

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The event that introduces the main conflict of the story

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Inciting incident

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All of the events in a story leading up to the climax

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Rising action

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The point of highest tension and suspense in a story; the turning point

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Climax

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All the events after the climax

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Falling action

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The moment in a story when the main conflict is settled

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Resolution

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All of the events after the resolution; the tying up of loose ends; all questions answered

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Denouement

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The opposition of two characters/forces within the plot; internal or external

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Conflict

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The process of creating characters and giving them personalities

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Characterization

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The reader is explicitly told what the personality of the character is

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Direct characterization

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The character’s personality is revealed to the reader through speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks

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Indirect characterization

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A character with multiple traits

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Round character

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A character with only one trait; stock or stereotype

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Flat character

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A character who remains unchanged throughout the events of the story

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Static character

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A character who grows or evolves as a result of events within the story

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Dynamic character

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The vantage point from which the narrator tells the story

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Point of view

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All knowing narration in the story, narrator knows the inner thoughts of all the characters

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Omniscient narrator

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Narration with “I” and “me” as pronouns; narrator is one character within the story

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First person narrator

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Narrator is outside of the story and knows the inner thoughts of one character within the story

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Third person narrator

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Amusing and unexpected contradictions within a story

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Irony

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A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience or reader knows to be true

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Dramatic irony

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Words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

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Verbal irony

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When the expected outcome does not happen

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Situationally irony

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An object that has both a literal and figurative meaning; something that represents something else

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Symbol

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The universal truth about the human condition that is revealed within a story; central meaning or message

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Theme

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Type of figurative language where to dissimilar things are compared; something IS something else

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Metaphor

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Figurative language where a non-human subject is given human characteristics

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Personification

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Story with many layers of symbolic meaning; a literal level and deeper symbolic levels

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Allegory

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in two or more stressed syllables

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Assonance

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The characterization of two characters that is sharply contrasted to add dimension to both

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Foil

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Extreme exaggeration; used to make a point but not to be interrupted literally

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Hyperbole

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The feeling created in a reader by a literary work or a passage

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Mood

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The author’s feelings towards the subject of the writing

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Tone

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The author’s use of words or phrases to create mental images for the reader

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Imagery

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