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Allusion

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Reference to a famous person place or thing

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Atmosphere/Mood

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Overall feeling of a text (how the reader feels)

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Conflict

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Struggle between two opposing forces

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Crisis

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Moment of intense conflict

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Diction

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vocabulary used by the writer

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Dilemma

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There is a choice to make and neither option is good

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Flashback

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Switch from present to past to provide a background

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Foreshadowing

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Hints about what is going to happen

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Motivation

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what drives a character to do something

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Protagonist

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Main character of a story

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Satire

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Using irony to make fun of a person/idea/thing

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Setting

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Time and place a story happens

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Short story

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Brief fictional prose naritive

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stereotype

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any fixed pattern of plot or character

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Symbol

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Something that represents something else

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Theme

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Implied central idea in a story

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Antecedent action

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Events that happen before a story starts

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Character

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moral qualities of a fictional person

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climax

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the turning point in a protagonists fortunes

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Confidante

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a person trusted by the main character

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Denouement

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the resolution

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dynamic character

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A character that changes

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Fantasy

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Imaginative, impossible tales

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Round character

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Beleivable character

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# Narrative foil
contrasting character
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# Narrative Verbal irony
saying one thing but mean another
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# Narrative Dramatic irony
Unlike others, a character doesnt know something
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# Narrative Situational Irony
outcome is different than expected
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# Narrative Moral
the lesson of a story
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# Narrative Plot
made up of narrative events
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# Narrative Limited Omniscient POV
third person narritive (He/She)
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# Narrative Style
individual manner of a writer
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# Narrative suspense
feeling of anxiety about the outcome
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# Narrative Universality
when story applies to all people
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# Narrative Verisimilitude
the believable likeness of a story (realism)
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# Narrative Vicarious expirience
when a reader shares the characters feelings
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# Poetry Apostrophe
Address something that isn't there or human as something that is present and human | Ex: O' Wild West Wind
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# Poetry Caesura
Break or pause in the middle of a verse, usually marked by a double line ||
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# Poetry Consonance
repetition of consonant sounds in the middle of a word (Pitter-patter)
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# Poetry Hyperbole
An overexaguration
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# Poetry Irony
Contrast between 2 elements | Situational, verbal, dramatic
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# Poetry Metaphor
comparison NOT using like, as or than
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# Poetry Metonymy
type of metaphor where the name of one thing is applied to another | Ex: the crown = the monarchy
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# Poetry Onomatopoeia
Words mimic the noises they imply
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# Poetry Pun
Play on words
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# Poetry Sonnet
A lyric poem of 14 lines Shakespeare = 3 groups of 4 | Italian = 2 groups of 4, 2 groups of 3
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# Poetry Understatment
Saying less than is true, done for effect | Ex: losing your job means you can sleep in
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# Poetry Verse
A group of lines containing a specific meter (a particular form of rythmic arrangment)
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# Poetry Allegory
An underlying meaning or "story" beneath the poems surface | Ex: Animal Farm
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# Poetry Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant or vowel at the start of a word
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# Poetry Antithesis
Directly oposing ideas within a balanced gramatical structure
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# Poetry Assonance
repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words in a close proximity
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# Poetry Blank Verse
type on unrhymed poetry using 5 iambic feet
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# Poetry connotation
the emotional associations implied or suggested by a word
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# Poetry Couplet
two successive lines of rhyming verse having the same number of feet
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# Poetry Dramatic monolouge
a poem written as a speach from the narrator adressing a silent audiance
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# Poetry Foot
a basic unit of measurement for syllable groups in poetry
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# Poetry Image
word groups that help the reader picture or sense what is being described
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# Poetry Lyric
a brief, music like poem expressing strong emotions and thoughts
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# Poetry Octave
refers to an 8 line poem or stanza
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# Poetry Paradox
a statment that appears to be contradictory, but proves to be true
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# Poetry Personification
attributing human qualities to non-human things
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# Poetry Prose
any form of writing that is not poetry
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# Poetry Simile
an indirect comparison using like or as
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# Poetry Stanza
the way lines have been grouped together in a poem
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# Poetry Synecdoche
a part of something used to represent a whole
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# Poetry Tone
the attitude of the speaker towards their audience
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# Visual Terms Subject
literally what is in the picture
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# Visual Terms Composition
how all the parts fit together to create a particulat effect
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# Visual Terms Levels
High, low, medium shots done for interest/symbolic value
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# Visual Terms Focus
Something specifically selected to stand out
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# Visual Terms Body language
assumed body position
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# Visual Terms Facial expression
using the face to indicate emotion
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# Visual Terms Frame composition
what is included in one frame of film
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# Visual Terms Editing
cutting, etc, done after film is done
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# Visual Terms colour
adds to appearance of film and may have symbolic meaning
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# Visual Terms Sound effects
added after to make film more real
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# Visual Terms visual effects
Adds to appearance of film
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# Visual Terms Cinematography
refers to the camera work in a film
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# Visual Terms Dissolve
one image fades out and another fades in
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# Visual Terms Dolly shot
camera rolls towards or away from a subject
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# Visual Terms medium shot
a shot that shows subjects from a moderate distance
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# Visual Terms Shot
a basic unit of film
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# Visual Terms Sequence
several shots artistically presented in a scene
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# Visual Terms Long shot
a shot that includes entire bodies of actors
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# Visual Terms Superimposition
two shots, one ontop of another
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# Visual Terms Crane shot
dramatic or still motion shot taken from a crane-like machine
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# Visual Terms Take
a run through or actual shooting of a sequence
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# Visual Terms montage
A series of shots put together to make up a continuous scene
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# Visual Terms Point of view
a camera view as a character would see the action
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# Visual Terms Close-up
brings the subject very close to the camera
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# Visual Terms Pan
horizontal camera movment from one side to the other
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# Visual Terms Zoom
movment of the camera from far away to close up or vice-versa
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# Non-fiction Comparison and contrast
show similarities and differences
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# Non-fiction Definition
A topic is defined and described with examples
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# Non-fiction Classification
Topics/ideas are grouped and organized
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# Non-fiction cause and effect
Show the causes and results of things
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# Non-fiction Narration
An account of events
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# Non-fiction Probelm-solution
set up problem and offer solution
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# Non-fiction Persuasive
to convince the audience of something
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# Non-fiction Personal
a personal connection is made to some aspect of a piece of writing
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# Non-fiction Literary
imaginative or creative writing
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# Non-fiction Satirical
uses irony, sarcasm, ridicule to make a point
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# Non-fiction Thesis
A proposition to be mantained or proved
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# Non-fiction Analogy
arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects
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# Non-fiction Anecdote
a short account of an entertaining/interesting incident
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# Non-fiction Farce
absurdly futile procedings:pretense, mockery
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# Non-fiction Parallel structure
correspondence in construction of successive clauses
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# Non-fiction Syntax
the order and arrangment of words forming a logical sentance
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# Non-fiction Caricature
comic representation of a person by exaggurating a characteristic

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