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Midterm Literary Terms Flashcards

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

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Allusion

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A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious or work of art that is well known

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Autobiography

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An account of a persons life written by that person

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First person narrative

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The narrator participates in the action of the story

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration or overstatement

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Imagery

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A language that evokes one or all of the five senses

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Irony

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An implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

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Figurative language

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Similes, metaphors

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Literal

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Taking words by their usual or most basic sense

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Metaphor

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The comparison of two unlike things

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Mood

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The emotional attitude that a reader feels from the literature

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Nonfiction

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Prose writing based on facts

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Oxymoron

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Putting two contradictory words together like jumbo shrimp

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Paradox

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Reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory

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Parallelism

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The use of successive verbal constructions that correspond in grammatical structure or sound

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to animals or objects

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Repetition

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The action of repeating something(a word or phrase of importance)

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Restatement

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A point made in the beginning that is later said again in a different way

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Science fiction

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Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances

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Simile

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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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Theme

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The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express

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Tone

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The attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character

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