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Lit Terms Flashcards

1
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Word choice or words

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Diction

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Over-exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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3
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Type of imagery that relates to taste

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Gustatory imagery

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A comparison not using the words like or as

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Metaphor

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5
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The development of a character or multiple characters

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Characterization

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The central message in a text

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Theme

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7
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Opposites

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Antithesis

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8
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Words that imitate sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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9
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Type of imagery that relates to touch

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Tactile imagery

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10
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What we think of when we hear a word

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Connotation

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Type of irony when the reader or audience knows more than the characters

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Dramatic irony

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12
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 Time and place

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Setting

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13
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Internal and external

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Conflict

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14
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Category or type

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Genre

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15
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The repetition of consonant sounds in words or phrases

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Alliteration

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The way in which words are put together to make sentences or paragraphs

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Syntax

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A comparison using the words like or as

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Simile

18
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When the text or character refers to an event which already occurred

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Flashback

19
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Type of irony known as sarcasm

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Verbal irony

20
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Giving inanimate objects human qualities

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Personification

21
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Type of imagery that relates to hearing

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Auditory imagery

22
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When the weather mimics the mood

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Pathetic fallacy

23
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Placing two things side-by-side for an effect

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Juxtaposition

24
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The feeling created (Often by the setting)

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Mood

25
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Type of imagery that relates to seeing

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Visual imagery

26
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Distinctive characteristics

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Style

27
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Repetition of vowel sounds in words or phrases

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Assonance

28
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When the text offers clues to what might come in the future

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Foreshadowing

29
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Type of imagery that relates to smelling

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Olfactory imagery

30
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Type of irony when there is a plot twist

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Situational irony

31
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Start

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Exposition

32
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Turning point in a story

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Climax

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End

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Denouement

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