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Literary terms Flashcards

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Author’s purpose

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The reason a author writes

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Rhetorical Devices

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Language such as repetition or parallelism to the audience

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Symbol

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When an object, person, or place really stands for something else

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Theme

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The underlying message that the author wants a reader to understand

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Inference

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A prediction on what will happen later

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Parallelism

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Words of a sentence structure

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Repetition

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Repeat of a sound or word

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Text structure

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Arrangement of a story

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Simile

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Comparing something using like or as

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Supporting textual evidence

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Material to provide a claim

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Metaphor

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Compare two things that have no or little relations

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Noun

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A person, place, or idea

Ex: Mark, Jamestown, Gameboy

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Verb

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Show state of action or state of being

Ex: running, bleeding, tired

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Adjective

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Words that modify nouns and pronouns

Ex: the, a, an

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Preposition

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Show relationships between a noun and pronoun

Ex: across, since, under

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Subject

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The who or what in a sentence

Ex: “Mark” would be the subject of a sentence

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Prepositional phrase

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Begins with a preposition and ends with a noun

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Simple sentence

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A sentence that has only one independent clause

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Compound sentence

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A sentence that has two or more independent clause

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Claim or Point of view

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The writers position on a problem

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Mood

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The atmosphere or tone that a writer creates in a story

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Foreshadowing

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Hints or clues that will happen later on in the story

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Extended Metaphor

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Compares two things that have no or little correlation to one another in great detail

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Pace

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The speed at which a story moves

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Authors tone

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The attitude a writer sets within a story

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Irony: Verbal, Situational, or Dramatic

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When a object or person is exaggerated out of proportion to give emphasis

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Fortune’s Fool

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The term that means that you are a victim at fate, a term used by Romeo near the end of the play by Shakespeare, what ever happens next is fated to happen

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Tragic Hero

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Characters that are in major parts of history that have great or big downfalls

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Foil

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A character that has a very opposite personality to the main character to bring out and enhance personality traits to the main character

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Pun

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A joke that comes from a play, can also make use of multiple words meanings

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Tragic Flaw

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A flaw that is brought out from a character over time be it a major or a side character

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