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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Verbal irony

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What is said is the opposite of what is meant

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Situational irony

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What happens is the opposite of what is expected

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Dramatic irony

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The audience knows something that the characters do not

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Foreshadowing

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Events in a work predict later events

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Symbolism

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One thing represents something else

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Character

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The people (or representatives) in stories

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Dynamic/round characters

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Change during the course of the story

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Static/flat characters

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Do not change during the course of the story

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Stock characters

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Stereotypical or cliché characters

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Protagonist

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The main character with whom we are supposed to identify or sympathize

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Antagonize

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The character who causes the main conflict with the protagonist

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Point of view

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How the story is told (first, third person, etc)

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Omniscient narrator

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Narrator is God

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Theme

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The main idea that the writer tries to convey

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Visual imagery

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What we see

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Visual imagery

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What we see

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Auditory imagery

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What we hear

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Tactile imagery

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What we feel

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Gustatory imagery

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What we taste

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Olfactory imagery

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What we smell

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Alliteration

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Repetition of identical consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words

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Allusion

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Reference to another work or the past or significant persons/events

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Assonance

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Repetition if vowel sounds

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Ballad

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Narrative poem

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Diction

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Level of word sophistication

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Hyperbole

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Overstatement of ideas/situations

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Metaphor

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A comparison that says one thing is another thing

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Simile

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A comparison using like or as

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like the sounds they represent

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to inhuman or inanimate objects

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Stanza

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Group of poetic lines; actual form varies

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Apostrophe

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A type of poem in which the speaker addresses an absent person or speaks to an animal or inanimate object as if it were a person

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Aubade

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A poem about morning/the dawn

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Elegy

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A poem that celebrates the dead

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