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Literary Terms 14-20 Flashcards

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Ode

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Lyric or poem with elevated style.

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that suggest their meaning.

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Opinion

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See fact and opinion.

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Oral history

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Stories of people’s lives told by mouth.

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Oxymoron

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Combining contradictory words with ideas.

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Paradox

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Statement that seems to contradict itself but, its true.

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Parallelism

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The use of similar grammatical construction.

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Paraphrasing

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Restatement of text by reader.

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Parody

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Imitates authors work for comic effect or ridicule.

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Personification

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Figure of speech given human characteristics.

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Perspective

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See point of view.

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Persuasion

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Meant to sway a readers feelings.

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Play

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See drama.

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Plot

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Sequence of events that make up a story.

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Exposition

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Introduces characters.

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Inciting incident

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Introduces central conflict with the story.

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Rising action

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Complications arise as characters struggle with conflict.

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Climax

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The turning point.

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Falling action

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When the action winds down.

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Resolution/Denouement

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Occurs after climax where conflicts are resolved.

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Subplot

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Additional minor plot that involves secondary conflict.

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Poetry

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Feelings expressed, imaginative, musical language.

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Point of view

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Perspective from which story is told.

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First person point of view

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“I” point of view.

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Second person point of view

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“you’ point of view.

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Third person point of view

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Not a character in a story.

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Third person omniscient

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” All knowing.”

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Predicting

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Guessing what might occur.

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Primary source

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First hand account of the event.

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Propaganda

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False or misleading info.

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Prose

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Ordinary written language.

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Protagonist

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See character.

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Questioning

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Raising questions.

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Realistic conflict

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Imaginative writing set in real world.

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Refrain

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Chorus.

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Repitition

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Repeated for emphasis.

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Resolution

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See plot.

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Rhyme

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Repetition of identical sounds.

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End or terminal rhymes

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Words that rhyme at the END of a verse.

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Eye rhyme

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Words that seem to rhyme but do not.

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme within a line of poetry.

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Slant rhyme

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When 2 words have a constant rhyme but no proceeding vowel.

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of end rhyme.

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Rhymth

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Pattern of sounds created by stressed syllables.

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Rising action

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See plot.

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Sarcasm

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The use of praise to mock somebody.

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Sattire

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Literary technique in which ideas/customs are ridiculed.

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Scanning

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Process of searching for info.

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Scene

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Events that occur in one place at a time.

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Science fiction

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Writing explores unexpected possibilities.

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Secondary source

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Information compiled based on other sources.

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Sensory details

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Help reader see, hear, taste, and smell.

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Sequence of events

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Order which things occur.

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Setting

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Time, place, physical details.

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Short story

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Brief work of fiction.

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Simile

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Comparison using “like” or “as.”

English, 12th Literature (9 decks)

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