Terminology Flashcards

- 'Lord Of The Flies' dictionary

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Allegory

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A story that has another symbolic story in it, usually moral

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Free indirect narrative style

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The literary technique of writing a character’s first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator

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Microcosm

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Small place/ area that is a symbol for the wider world

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Asyndetic listing

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A list without the word ‘and’ in it
eg. she was bright, beautiful, pretty, precious

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Intertextual

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When a text refers to another text, by using distinctive, common or recognisable elements of the referenced text

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Zenophobia

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Fear or hatred of foreigners

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Zoomorphism

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giving animal features and qualities to humans

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