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English II AAC Semester 1 Final > Literary Terms to Know > Flashcards

Literary Terms to Know Flashcards

1
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Flat Character

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One Trait

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Archetype

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pattern in story

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Round Character

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Many Traits, quirky belly man

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Static Character

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doesn’t change

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Dynamic Character

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changes

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5
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Foil Character

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contrasts main character to show how cool main guy is

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Stock Character

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same old stereotyped ones

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4 Types of Conflicts

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Person v Person (other)
Person v Nature
Person v Society
Person v Self

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Denotation

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dictionary definition

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Connotation

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other meaning/ feeling of word

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10
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Dialect

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lang similar to a region

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Colloquial

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convos, informal

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Jargon

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vocab relating to certain careers

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Vernacular

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terms not known to everyone

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Mood

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how you feel about it

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Freytag’s Pyramid

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pattern of a fictional work

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6 Parts of Freytag’s Pyramid

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  1. Expo
  2. Incite
  3. Rise
  4. Climax
  5. Fall
  6. Resolution
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4 Plot Methods

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  1. Flashback = past
  2. Foreshadow = future
  3. Subplot = 2nd story develop independently of the 1st one, same time
  4. Parallel plot = 2 similar, separate stories
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5 POVs

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  1. 1st
  2. 2nd
  3. 3rd limited = narrator knows thinking of couple people
  4. 3rd omni = narrator knows everything, god-like
  5. 3rd objective = narrator doesn’t know thinking of anyone

ranking: obj < limit < omni

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Epiphany

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ohhhhhh moment

20
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Apostrophe

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talking to dead person

21
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Metonymy

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replace one thing with close word

22
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Oxymoron

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two opps close to each other

23
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Paradox

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impossible but true

24
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Synecdoche

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replace whole by part

25
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Assonance + Consonance

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repeat vowel vs repeat consonant sounds

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Allegory

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story symbolizes smth big like religion

27
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3 Ironies

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  1. Verbal = says one, means another = sarcasm
  2. Situational = surprising thing happens = lifeguard drown
  3. Dramatic = you know, person doesn’t
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Allusion

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reference to something = myth, religion, history, etc.

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Motif

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thing that shows up a lot in a story, reps something related to theme

English II AAC Semester 1 Final (4 decks)

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