Literature Flashcards

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Rhetorical Question

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You

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Direct Address

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As, Like

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Simile

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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Metaphor

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Giving a non-human thing, human characteristics.

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Personification

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A list without and

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Asydetic list

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A list with no commas just conjustions

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Polysyndetic list

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Command

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Imperative

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States a fact

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Declaritive

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Sensory details for the associations to paint a picture in the readers mind

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Imagery

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In order to create suspense for her readers, an author often wishes to hint where the story is going. At the same time, she doesn’t wish to give away the ending.

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Foreshadowing

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It’s where the audience understand something in the play that the characters are unaware of.

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Dramatic Irony

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Things to prove your arguement

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Statistics

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14
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Combination of contradictory words.

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Oxymoron

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Human characteristics or emotions that are giving to nature or objects. e.g: cruel winds

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Pathetic Fallacy

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Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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Rhyme

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A statement that seems absurd but is actually valid or true.

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Paradox

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The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think

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Irony

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A word or expression that has lost much of its force through overexposure

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Cliche

20
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The usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea

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Anti-climax