LD 3 Flashcards

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It is a literary device used for expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his aims/ dreams. The conflict is a discord that can have external aggressors or can even arise from within the self.

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Conflict

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_____ refers to repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. In this regard _____ can be understood to be a kind of alliteration. What sets it apart from alliterations is that it is the repetition of only consonant sounds.

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Consonance

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______ refers to the use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word.

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Denotation

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______ is the distinctive tone or tenor of an author’s writings. ______ is not just a writer’s choice of words it can include the mood, attitude, dialect and style of writing.

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Diction

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The term is derived from the German language and literally translates into ‘double walker’. It refers to a character in the story that is actually a counterfeit or a copy of a real/ genuine character.

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Doppelganger

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An ______ is a literary device that is used as a descriptive device. It is usually used to add to a person or place’s regular name and attribute some special quality to the same. Such as “Alexander the Great.”

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Epithet

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The term ________ is used to refer to the literary practice of using a comparatively milder or less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form. This device is used when writing about matters such as sex, violence, death, crimes and “embarrassing”.

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Euphemism

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_________ is a literary device wherein the writer/ author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently being unfolded in the story.

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Flashback

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