Clements-Blinn English 1302 Departmental Final – Flashcards
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Theme
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a topic explored in a literary work meaning or message
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Plot
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the arrangement of action artistically arranged
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Exposition
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the first part of plot, which sets characters, setting, and the situation
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Primary source
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the work
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Diction
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choice of words
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Secondary source
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interpretation or analysis of primary source
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Periodical database
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journals
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Online catalog
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books
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Paraphrasing
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express the meaning of the author in different words
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Collaborative writing
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peer editing, sharing sources, writing center
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Dramatic situation
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conflict
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Protagonist
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main character in the work who the author wants you to identify with
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Dramatic irony
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gap in what the audience knows and the characters believes
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Dialogue
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words spoken by characters in a work
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Alliteration
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Personification
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treating something nonhuman with humanlike characteristics
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Metaphor
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two unlike things are compared implicitly
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Eye-rhyme
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look, not sound alike
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Couplet
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two consecutive lines connected by rhyme and meter
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Sonnet
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verse form containing 14 lines
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Hubris
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excessive pride or confidence
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Soliloquy
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a monologue in which the character is on stage alone while thinking out-loud character alone in a play
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Aside
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other characters can't hear
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In medius res
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"in the midst of things," opening plot in the middle of action starting in deep drama
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Climax
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third part of plot, action stops rising and starts falling
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Blank verse
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metrical verse form most like human speech, unrhymed lines
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Literary analysis
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present tense, 3rd person
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Parenthetical for a play
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(act. scene. line numbers)
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Parenthetical for a poem
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(part.stanza.line numbers)
