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Lit terms
Card sets of literay terms
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English
10th Grade
10/24/2010

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Simile
Definition
Comparing one thing to an unlike thing by using like, as, or than
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Metaphor
Definition
Comparing two things without using like or as
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oxymoron

Definition
comparing contradictory words. example: freezerburn
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
Action words, and sounds. example: POP
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Personification
Definition
Giving human characteristics to a unliving thing
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Hyperbole
Definition
An extreme exaggergation
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Imagery
Definition
Language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
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Figurative Language
Definition
Lanuage or writting that invokes an image
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Motif
Definition
A re-occuring theme
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Symbol
Definition
using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning
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Genre
Definition
A class or category
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Prose
Definition
the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
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Satire
Definition
a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
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Parody
Definition
A remake of a literary work with humor
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Pun
Definition
The use of a word to suggest two meanings, usually humorous
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Allusion
Definition
An implied reference of another literary work
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Irony
Definition
the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
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Foreshadowing
Definition
A hinting of something to come in a literay work
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Rhetorical Question
Definition
a question that is asked, that doesnt desire an answer
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Tone
Definition
The feeling a reader gets from reading a literary work
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Sarcasm
Definition
Saying something that actually has an entire different meaning
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Characterization
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An author or poet's use of description, dialogue, dialect, and action to create in the reader an emotional or intellectual reaction to a character
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Plot
Definition
The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction
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Subplot
Definition
a subordinate plot in fiction or drama
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Voice
Definition
The way the author discribes a character???
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Monologue
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