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Lit. Terms and Techniques Flashcards

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What is a narrator?

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A narrator is a person telling the story

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What is a short story?

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A sequence of events told with less detail than a novel

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What is foreshadowing?

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Foreshadowing is when an author (or playwright!!) gives clues or hints of what is to come next in the story.

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What is setting?

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Setting is the time place and culture of a story.

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What is suspense?

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Suspense is a feeling of curiosity, uncertainty or dread about what will happen next.

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What is theme?

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Theme is the ‘big message’ the author is saying about life

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What is symbolism??

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Symbolism is when a concrete object is used to represent more than it’s actual self; an object carries a significance beyond itself

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What does narration mean?

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Narration means the telling of a story

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What is point of view (literary - NOT the opinion held by someone!)

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How the story is being told; from which focus the story is told: 1st, 2nd or 3rd person

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What is first person point of view?

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The point of view in which the author tells a story about himself or herself, and refers to self as I

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What is third person limited point of view?

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The point of view which the narrator tells the story about other people, and only knows one person’s thoughts and feelings

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What is the omniscient third person point of view?

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The point of view in which the narrator tells the story about other people, but knows what they all think or feel

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What is conflict?

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Conflict is the dramatic struggles between two forces in the story. If you do not have any conflict, you don’t have a plot.

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What is plot?

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Plot is the pattern of action in a story

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What is the exposition in plot?

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The exposition is the introduction of setting or characters

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What is rising action in plot?

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Rising action is a series of conflicts in the story that lead to the climax

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What is climax in the plot?

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Climax is the turning point of the story; the most interesting moment mentally and/or physically.

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Rap the qualities that define a hero.

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Sacrifice, determination, loyalty…courage, dedication and gallantry, valour, selfless, focused with no interference….bravery, fortitude and perseverance. Word.

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What is falling action in plot?

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Falling action is all the action that follows the climax.

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What is resolution or denouement in plot?

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Resolution or denouement is the conclusion, tying together of all the loose ends of the story; the outcome if the story - often what the characters have gained, or learned from their experiences

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What is a portmanteau?

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A portmanteau is a word that fuses two more or more words or word parts together to give a combined or loaded meaning.

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What is a flashback?

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A flashback is when a story starts in the present time but then describes an event that happens early in time

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What does In Media Res mean?

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(A latin term meaning in the middle of things). When a story begins with the peak of action without an exposition, and then it goes back and starts again from the beginning

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What are synonyms?

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Synonyms are two or more words with similar meanings (nice and kind, evil and bad)

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What are antonyms?

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Antonyms are two or more words with opposite meanings (evil and good)

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What are homonyms?

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Words that sound the same but have different meanings and may be spelled differently.

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What is detonation?

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The literal, dictionary meaning of a word.

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What does connotation mean?

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The meaning generally associated with the word. (Fat lard is rude, plump is a nicer way to refer to a large person)

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What is an act?

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A main division or a play or other drama, and may be divided into scenes

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What is a scene?

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A scene is a small unit of a play in which there is no shift in locale or time.

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What is an aside?

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A brief remark made by a character that is intended to be heard by the audience but not the characters

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What is figurative language?

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Language that creates an image for the reader

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What is a simile?

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A comparison of two things using the words like or as

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a direct comparison between two unlike things, without the use of like or as.

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What is irony?

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The contrast between what is expected and what happens or is said.

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What is sarcasm?

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Sarcasm is a bitter or sneering remark made to mock a person, thing, or idea; the use of irony to mock or convey contempt and is used when someone is feeling bitter toward someone or something

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What is personification?

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Ma figure of speech in which animals, abstract ideas and inanimate objects are given human characteristics.

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What is a hyperbole?

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A wild exaggeration it overstatement, especially of an emotion. MY HEART IS BROKEN!!!

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What is an understatement?

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Statements that downplay or undervalue something

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What is alliteration?

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THE REPEATED FIRST SOUNDS OF WORDS CLOSE TOGETHER IN SPEECH OR WRITING

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What is onomatopoeia?

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Words that imitate real sounds - slurp, buzz, zip

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What are puns?

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A ‘play on words’; use of a word or words in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.

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What is an oxymoron?

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The contrast between two contradictory terms for sake of emphasis

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What is an euphemism?

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A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be to blunt or harsh when referring to something embarrassing or unpleasant

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