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Literary Terms Flashcards

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What is the authors purpose?

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The reason an author writes.

Persuade
Inform
Explain
Entertain

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What are Rhetorical Devices?

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Figurative language such as repition or parallelism to effect and audience.

EX:Repition, Figurative Language

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What are symbols?

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An object,person, place stands for something else.

EX: Dove=peace , Eagle=Freedom, Snake=Evil, Owl=Wisdom

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What is a theme?

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The authors message he/she wants the reader to understand.

EX: Return evil with good, Relationships are complicated

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What is an inference?

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A prediction in the story; logical assumption

EX:If someone eats something and makes a face. Then you can infer they dont like it.

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What is Parallelism?

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A pattern of words or sentence structure.

EX:We cannot dedicate-We cannot consercrate-We cannot hallow

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What is repetition?

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To repeat a sound or word for emphasis.

EX:We-shows unity

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What is text structure?

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arrangments of the story;novel,poem, essay.

EX: Sequence, description, choronical order, compare/contrast, cause/effect

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What is a Simile?

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Comparing to things using LIKE or AS.

EX:As brave AS a lion. , Crazy LIKE a fox.

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What is supporting textual evidence?

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Material to prove a claim.

EX: claim=Return evil with good
evedince=In page 21 line 56-60 Clinton says ¨let usteach our children better…¨

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What is a metaphor?

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Comparing two things WITHOUT using LIKE or AS.

EX: raining cats and dogs

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What is a Claim/point of view?

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A point to support or prove an argument.

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What is a mood?

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Embodies the overall felling or atmosphere of the work.

EX:sadness, anxious, sense of worry

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What is foreshadowing?

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litetary device used to givean indication or hint of what is to some later in the story.

EX: The cenocors book says¨he is going to find his own letter¨

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What is an extended metaphor?

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A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, stanzas or prose of potery.

EX: Hope is the thing with feathers

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What is pace?

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The speed at which the story is told.

EX: In the cencor book, the pace changed from slow to fast becuase it should how he got promoted fast so the pace skipped to when he got promoted.

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What is authors tone?

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The mood implied by an authors word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.

EX: cynical, depressed, sympathetic, cheerful, outraged, positive, angry, sarcastic

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What is Irony: verbal/situational?

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When the actual results of a situation is tottally different from what you´d expect the results to be.

EX: Verbal Irony-When what is said is the opposite of what is meant. Situational Irony- when the reader or charater expects something to happen but something else happens instead.

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what is Figurative Language?

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creates comparisons by linking the senses and the concrete to abstract ideas.

EX:simile,metaphor, personification

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What is Fortune’s fool?

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thinks of the consequences of his actions as caused by fate or luck.

EX:Romeo: O, I am fortune’s fool! … Romeo, for example, simply by defending himself against Tybalt, a Capulet and therefore a blood enemy, becomes an outlaw.

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What is a Tragic Hero?

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a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.

EX:Romeo is seen as a tragic hero because of the many examples of his good and bad character. … Romeo loves Juliet with kindness and generosity, but to love her is forbidden.

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What is Foil?

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a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character

EX:used to compare the each other and highlight particular qualities and character traits. Must have some similarities in order for the reader to compare them

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what is Pun?

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Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.

EX:is in act 3, scene 1, when Mercutio famously makes a pun as he is dying, saying that he will be a “grave man” tomorrow.

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what is Dramatic Irony?

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a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

EX:Romeo returns to Verona. He find Juliet drugged, in a death-like sleep. He assumes she is dead and kills himself.

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What is Tragic Flaw?

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a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy.

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