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Flashcards by Makayla Mills, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Makayla Mills
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| Question | Answer |
| antagonist | The person against the protaganist |
| Protagonist | Main character of story |
| Epilogue | a short piece that wraps up the end of a story. |
| Legacy | something handed down from one generation to the next |
| Plot | The story itself |
| deductive reasoming | reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) |
| inductive reasoning | reasoning from detailed facts to general principle |
| red herring | Something to distract from the main issue |
| idiom | expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words |
| imagery | a noun to describe the way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature |
| Metaphor | an analogy between two things to show how one resembles the other in a direct way |
| simile | a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things using " like" or " as" |
| Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word |
| Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| Personifiction | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas |
| Memoir | an account of the author's personal experiences |
| Anecdote | A short story |
| autobiography | A book about the author's life written by the author |
| biography | A book written about someone's life |
| Conflict | The problem in the story |
| Dialogue | A conversation between two charcters |
| foreshadowing | the act of providing vague advance indications |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| Irony | When the opposite of what is expected happens |
| Verbal irony | The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean. |
| Dramatic irony | When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character. |
| Situational irony | The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. |
| Oxymoron | a word or phrase that contradicts itself, usually to create some rhetorical effect. |
| Point of view | your personal feelings, political position, and any other particular details about you that make up the way you look at something |
| Theme | an underlying topic of a discussion or a recurring idea in an artistic work |
| Tone | the kind of sound you hear in a musical note, or in a person's voice live or in writing |
| Connotatvie | having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit |
| denotative | having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming |
| genre | a kind of literary or artistic work |
| implict | suggested though not directly expressed |
| preconceived notion | an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence |
| satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| symbolism | the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning |
| alluision | passing reference or indirect mention |
| caesura | a break or pause in the middle of a verse line |
| consonance | the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words |
| couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse |
| octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| sestet | a group of six lines of verse |
| free verse | poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| haiku | a Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables. |
| homophone | each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling |
| ballad | A ballad is a song that tells a story, and it can be dramatic, funny, or romantic. |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry |
| characterization | the act of describing essential features |
| climax | the highest point of anything |
| flash back | a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene |
| stanza | paragraph of a poem |
| quatrain | four lines in a stanza |
| sonnet | a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
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