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Literary Terms 2 (DAY 15 through Day 20) Flashcards

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Ode

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a lyric poem of some length, usually of serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure.

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Onomatopoeia

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the use of words whose sounds 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 related by word of mouth.

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Oxymoron

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a form of figurative language combining contradictory words or ideas.

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Paradox

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a statement that seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless, true.

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Parallelism

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the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance.

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Paraphrasing

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the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form.

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Parody

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a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author’s work for comic effect or ridicule.

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Personification

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a figure of speech where animals, ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics.

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Perspective

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see POV.

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Persuasion

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persuasive writing is meant to sway readers’ feelings, beliefs, or actions/

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Play

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see drama.

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Plot

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the sequences of related events that make up a story.

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Exposition

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introduces the characters and the conflicts they face.

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Inciting incident

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occurs after the exposition and introduces the central conflict within the story.

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Rising action

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following the introduction of the central conflict; complications arise as the character struggle with the conflict.

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Climax

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the turning point, point of maximum interest, and highest tension in the plot of a story, play, or film.

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Falling action

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the end of the central conflict in a story, when the action starts to wind down.

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Resolution or denouement

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occurs after the climax and is where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up.

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Subplot

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an additional minor plot that involves a secondary conflict in the story.

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Poetry

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a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact imaginative, and often musical language.

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Primary source

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a first hand account of an event.

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Propaganda

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text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view.

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Prose

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the ordinary form of spoken and written language.

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Protagonist

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see character.

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Questioning

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the process of raising questions while reading in an effort to understand characters and events.

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Realistic fiction

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imaginative writing set in the real, modern world.

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Refrain

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repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals; sometimes called chorus.

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Repetition

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a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.

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Resolution

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see plot.

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Rhyme

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repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work.

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End or terminal rhymes

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words that rhyme at the end of a verse-line.

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Point of View

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perspective from which a story is told.

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First person POV

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the person telling the story is one of the characters in the story. It is the “I” POV. It is the most limited among the types because the narrator can only state what he or she sees, feels, and hears.

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Second person POV

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refers to the use of “you” in explanations or arguments.

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Third person limited or third person objective

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the person telling the story is not one of the characters in the story.

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Third person omniscient

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the narrator is not a character in the story, but the events in the story are seen throughout the eyes of more than one of the characters.

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Predicting

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the process of gathering information and combining it with the reader’s own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story.

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Eye rhymes

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are words that when written appear to rhyme, but when spoken don’t.

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Internal rhyme

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rhyme found within a line of poetry.

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Slant rhyme

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is also known as near rhyme, off rhyme, imperfect rhyme, oblique rhyme, or parahyme.

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Rhyme scheme

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the pattern of end rhyme used in a poem.

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Rhythm

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refers to the pattern of flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

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Rising action

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see plot

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Sarcasm

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the use of…

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Satire

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a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.

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Scene

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…

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Science fiction

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prose writing in which a writer explores unexpected possibilities of the past or the future by using scientific data and theories as well as his or her imagination

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Secondary source

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a secondary source presents information compiled from or based on other sources.

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Sensory details

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words and phrases that help readers use senses to tell what an author is describing.

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Sequence

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the order in which events occur or in which ideas are presented

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Setting

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the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a story occurs.

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Short story

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brief work of fiction that generally focuses on one or two main characters who face a single problem or conflict

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Soliloquy

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a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage.

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Sound devices

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see alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme and rhythm

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Speaker

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the voice that talks to the reader in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction.

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Speech

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a talk given in public

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Stage directions

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the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play.

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