Terms Flashcards

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Allegory

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Uses symbols

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2
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Allusion

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Reference to a person place thing

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3
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Ambiguity

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Multiple meanings

Secret unknown or unclear

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4
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Antagonist

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Character who actions or motive work against the hero

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5
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Archetype

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Character action or situation that represent human nature

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6
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Denotation

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Literal meaning

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7
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Connotation

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Implications

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8
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Frame story

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Story that contains stories within it

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9
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Foreshadowing

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Writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story

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10
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Epiphany

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Moment in the story where a character achieves realization

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11
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Omniscient

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Can know thoughts of more than one person

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12
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Motif

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Pattern of images recurrent idea

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13
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Irony

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A way of speaking or writing that is opposite of what the character author know to be true

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14
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Regionalism

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Literature identified with a specific place

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15
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Realism

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Literature that present life as it is lived by real people

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