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Flashcards by allygagliardo, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by allygagliardo
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Round | fully developed personality |
| Flat | little knowledge about them, usual demonstrate one dominate trait |
| Static | no change in personality or outlook on life |
| Dynamic | changes significantly in the course of the plot |
| Verbal Irony | say the opposite of what is meant |
| Situational | events turning out opposite than expected |
| Dramatic | some information is kept secret from some characters |
| Allusion | a reference in literature to a person, place, thing, history, art, music, mythology, the Bible. |
| Personification | human characteristics given to nonhumans - animals, things, etc. |
| Flashback | the plot stops to recall a previous event from the past and then continues in the present |
| Flash-forward | plot jumps to a future event and then goes back to the present and moves forward to that future event to show how it came about. |
| Narrative | poem that tells a story |
| Lyric | poem that expresses feelings and emotions |
| Simile | comparison using “like” or “as.” |
| Metaphor | comparison between two unlike things |
| Symbol | a thing that stands for itself as well as representing some larger meaning |
| Setting | place and time period of a piece of literature |
| Metonymy | part of or closely associated thing to represent the whole thing |
| Refrain | line or lines repeated throughout a poem |
| Paradox | something contradictory that is somehow true |
| Alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound |
| Rhyme scheme | pattern of end rhyme in a poem; each new rhyme is assigned a new letter to determine the pattern of rhyme. |
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