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Litrary Terms Flashcards

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A written account of another persons life written by someone else

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Biography

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A similarity or comparability

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Analogy

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Why the character acts, feels or thinks a certain way

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Character motivation

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A scene from an earlier time that interrupts the ongoing action of a story

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Flashback

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Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s five senses.

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Imagery

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The most important idea in a paragraph or essay.

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Main idea

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Perspective from which a story is told to the reader

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Point of view

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Comparisons that use like or as

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Simile

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The authors attitude toward the subject

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Tone

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The feeling the work conveys for the reader

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Mood

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The reason the author has written the piece

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Authors purpose

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Consists of the characters motivation, comparison and portrayal or description

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Characterization

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The idea of relating the content of a story to one’s knowledge/ experience

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Connect

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To give a glimpse of what may happen in the future

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Foreshadow

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Contradiction between what is expected and what happens

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Irony

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Comparison that does not use like or as

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Metaphor

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Time, location, and cultural customs in which the action occurs

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Setting

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Message, moral or meaning that a literary work communicates

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Theme

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Expression whose meaning is different from the literal sense of the words

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Idiom

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The events of the story

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Plot

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Struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

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The main character or hero of a story

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Protagonist

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When you ask about the events of the story

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Question

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When you try to figure out what happens next

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Predict

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