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Short Story Test Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Narrator takes part in action; they only know their own thoughts

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First person

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Narrator does not take part in action

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Third person

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3
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One persons internal thoughts

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Limited

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Character knows more than ones thoughts/feelings

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Omniscient

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5
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The person telling the story

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Narrator

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Brief story that teaches a lesson

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Parable

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Entire literary work has a literal meaning and figural meaning too

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Allegory

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Something that represents itself or something else

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Symbol

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9
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Categorizing literature

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Genre

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10
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Something that repeats throughout literature

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Motif

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11
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Reference to anything one thinks audience might know

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Allusion

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12
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Comparison of two normally uncompared things

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Metaphor

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Comparison of two unlike things using like or as

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Simile

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14
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Giving something to human qualities or action

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Personification

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15
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Comparison of two normally compared things that Is stretched

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Extended metaphor

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Language spoken by people of region, population, time, or religion

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Dialect

17
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Hints a future event in a literary work

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Foreshadowing

18
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Increase of drama or suspends in a story; when you know something that one or more characters don’t

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Dramatic irony

19
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When situation violates expectation of audience or characters or both

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Situational irony

20
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Words come not intended

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Verbal irony/sarcasm

21
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Violation of an expectation or difference of something expected; exists when foreshadowing doesn’t happen

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Irony

22
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Introduction, workthrough, and resolution of a conflict

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Plot

23
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Gives information

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Exposition/introduction

24
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Conflict doesn’t exist anymore

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Resolution

25
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Unties loose ends of a story

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Denouement

26
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When the resolution turns bad

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Catastrophe

27
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Manner of which story is told mirrors the mind; random

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Stream of consciousness

28
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Reference to a previous event with the main character; normally a biproduct of stream of consciousness

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Flashback

29
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Perspective from which a story is told; comes in first or third person

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Point of view

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