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Literary Terms And Allusions Test Flashcards

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Camelot

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Arthurian. Place of justice and chivalry

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Brahmin

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American. Any socially prominent or intellectual individual

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Ahab

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Biblical. Anyone inclined to evil intentions

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Antediluvian

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Bliblical. “Before the flood.” Anything that happened a while ago

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Herculean

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Greek. A monumental task that requires superhuman effort to do

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Noble savage

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American. An unpolished person who is more worthy than his more “civilized” acquaintances

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Apocalypse

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Biblical. The end of the world

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Subject

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What a story is about

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Paradox

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A seemingly contradictory state plenty that makes sense

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Holy Grail

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Arthurian. A quest for a hard to get goal

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Setting

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Time and place of a story

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Dystopia

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A society that is falling apart

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Expository

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Non fiction writing that explains an idea

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3rd limited

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Narrator is focused on one person

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Hyperbole

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Tremendous exaggeration

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Utopia

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Ideal perfection

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Climax

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Most intense moment

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Prose

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Normal writing

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Homeric

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Greek. Anything that is larger than life

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Job

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Biblical. Anyone who suffers with patience

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Protagonist

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Main character

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Hubris

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Overbearing pride that leads to downfall

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Dramatic irony

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Audience knows something that the character doesn’t

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Plot

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Series of events that tells a story

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Sarcasm

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An insincere tone of voice

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Catch-22

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American. A situation where you lose no matter what your decision is

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Epiphany

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When a character comes to a major realization

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Sisyphean

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Greek. A never-ending task

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Symbol

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Something that stands for something greater than itself

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Athena/Pallas Athena

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Greek. Goddess of wisdom and power

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Allegory

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A story where nearly everything serves on a symbolic level

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Faustian

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A bargain where a person sacrifices everything to get something now, but pays the price later

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Tone

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Author’s attitude

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Irony

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A difference between expectation and reality

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Antagonist

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Character that stands in the way of the protagonist

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3rd omniscient

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Narrator focused on all characters

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Round Table

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Arthurian. Place of friendship and loyalty

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Rising Action

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Problem of story becomes more intense

39
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Exposition

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Beginning of a story

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Prometheus

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Greek. A person willing to sacrifice for their beliefs

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Poetry

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Decorated literature that has verse form

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Fiction

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Achilles(heel)

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Greek. A person’s most vulnerable place

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Edenic

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Biblical. Reference to a perfect time

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Israelites

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Biblical. In American literature, the group with which the puritans identified

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Genre

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Category for a specific type of novel

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Tragic Flaw

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A trait that leads to the downfall of a character (not always a bad trait)

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Verbal irony

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Someone says something one thing, but means the opposite

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Tabula Rasa

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“Blank slate.” Fresh mind

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Pun

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Play on words

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Denouement

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Resolution

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Galahad

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Arthurian. Representation of purity and perfection

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1st person

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A character is telling a story; “I”

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Theme

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Central idea in a literary work

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Foreshadowing

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Clues that hint to a future event

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Point of view

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The vantage point an author writes their story

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Non-fiction

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Situational irony

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A situation itself is ironic

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