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Midterm
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35
English
Undergraduate 1
03/05/2014

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Genre
Definition
A group of works with shared characteristics.
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Three dominant
Definition
Poetry
Drama
Fiction
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Theme
Definition
Central Idea
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Diction
Definition
Word Choice
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Imagery
Definition
The pictures the camera stays on.
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conflict
Definition
A disruption in the statues quo.
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Climax
Definition
The point where the disruption is unavoidable
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resolution
Definition
A new or return to the status quo.
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Narrator
Definition
Person telling the story
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Omniscient/third person
Definition
Teller in not a character within the action.
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Second person
Definition
The addressee is a character within the action.
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First person
Definition
The speaker is in the plot. (i)
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Sonnet
Definition
14 line rhymed poem
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Haiku
Definition
three line, seventeen syllable
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Villanelle
Definition
19 lined poem
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Sestina
Definition
39 line poem
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Blank verse
Definition
Unrhymed
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Free verse
Definition
Does not adhere to any rhyme scheme
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Realism
Definition
Tries to faithfully reproduce reality
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Modernism
Definition
Emphasizes fragment and perspective
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Postmodernism
Definition
Emphasizes limited perspective and refuses hierarchies.
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Setting
Definition
A place where the story takes place
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Context
Definition
The ideas and assumptions that inform the creation and reception of the text.
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Stage directions
Definition
short instructions
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Tragedy
Definition
A great person lay low, often his or her own devices.
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Comedy
Definition
A disruption of social expectations, often ending with the re-establish social order.
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Theater of the Absurd
Definition
Emphasizes the unreal nature of the dramatic performance to underscore the arbitrary meaningless of reality.
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Symbol
Definition
image that intentionally represents more than just that object.
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Metaphor
Definition
A means of describing the abstract through the familiar.
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Allegory
Definition
A story with 1:1 symbolic correlations.
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Personification
Definition
Ascribing human characteristics to non-human things and ideas.
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Allusion
Definition
Explicit references to another idea or literary work.
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Protagonist
Definition
Main character
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Antagonist
Definition
Conflicts the main character
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Foil
Definition
A character that mimics the other
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