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Final Exam Review
Literary Terms, Research, and Elements of Argument
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Language - English
Not Applicable
05/07/2005

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Speaker and Tone
Definition
The person(s) but not the poet speaking in the poem. It reveals the attitude of the person
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Denotation
Definition
The actual meaning of a word.
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Connotation
Definition
The implied meaning of a word
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Metaphor
Definition
Abstract Comparison between two things or people using the words am, is, are, was, or were
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Simile
Definition
Abstract comparison using words like or as.
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Symbol
Definition
A word, an object, or a person that represents a particular value outside itself.
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Personfication
Definition
An object that takes human form
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Irony
Definition
A contradiction that apparently is true in some sense.
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Allusion
Definition
A line or a sentence that refers to an event in history, in religion, or to another specific topic.
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Imagery
Definition
A description that appeals to all of the human senses.
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Sound
Definition
Refers to the way the reader hears a poem when it is read.
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Rhythm
Definition
Refers to the way the reader reads through a poem.
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Traditional Poems
Definition
Poems such as sonnets and couplets that have a definite rhyme pattern.
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Blank or free verse
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Poems that focus more on the meaning rather than on its pattern.
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Plot
Definition
The basic events throughout an entire short story.
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Action
Definition
The main events that keep a short story moving.
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Background
Definition
All pertinent information that helps us understand the characters' situations better.
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Development
Definition
Actions that allow the characters' situations to grow throughout the story.
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Climax
Definition
The central or most important point where the characters' lives forever change.
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Ending or Resolution
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The point where we learn the final outcome of the main characters.
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Protagonist
Definition
The main character in a short story.
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Antagonist
Definition
The main character in a short story who opposes the protagonist.
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First Person
Definition
Story told by the I
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Third Person
Definition
Story told by the observer
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Setting
Definition
The location and place of the story
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Diction
Definition
The type of dialect, dialogue, or vocabulary used to convey information about characters.
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Theme
Definition
The central meaning of the story.
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Persuade
Definition
To convince
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Audience
Definition
An essay's readers
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Claims
Definition
Arguments that can be in the forms of an evaluation or an interpretation.
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Issue
Definition
A point of contention in an essay that can be expressed as a fact, a theme, a definition, as a symbol, a pattern, an evaluation, as historical and cultural contexts, a genre, a type of social policy, and as a cause and an effect.
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Evidence
Definition
Infomation from primary and secondary sources used to support a claim.
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Warrants
Definition
Beliefs underlying your claim and support.
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Plagiarism
Definition
Any knowingly or unknowingly copying or misrepresenting information from another source without giving proper credit.
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MLA
Definition
The Modern Language Association that is used for documenting Humanities and Language Arts Research Papers.
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In-Text Citation
Definition
A citation within the written text that will allow the reader to verify the source of information.
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Works Cited
Definition
A list of primary and secondary sources that is written at the end of a research paper.
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Primary Source
Definition
All original documents that have not been critiqued, paraphrased, summarized, or analyzed by another author.
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Secondary Source
Definition
All written information that has reviewed, analyzed, interpreted, or evaluated the original source.
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Source Evaluation
Definition
A system that verifies the author's credentials, the place of publication, its personal bias or agenda, and its scholarly rigor.
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Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation
Definition
Three writing skills that allow a writer to incorporate outside information into a paper.
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Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish
Definition
A writing process that requires a writer to create, make corrections, and then publish for public criticism.
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Meter
Definition
Accented or unaccented syllables
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Sonnets, limericks, blank verse, lyric
Definition
Examples of different forms of poetry
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Essay
Definition
A short piece of writing that expresses the views of its author.
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Flat character
Definition
A character in a story that is one dimensional.
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Rounded Character
Definition
A character in a short story that is complex and developed.
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Point of View
Definition
The perspective of the short story
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Omniscient narrator
Definition
A narrator that knows everything that happens in a short story.
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Limited Omnisicent Narrator
Definition
A narrator that knows information about some of the characters.
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Historical and Psychological Criticism
Definition
A school of interpretation that uses historical context, psychology, and biography to interpret the meaning of a text.
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New Criticism
Definition
A school of interpretation that contends that meaning can be found within the text itself.
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Deconstruction
Definition
A school of interpretation that contends that paradox and contradiction both provide and disable the meaning of a text.
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Reader Response Criticism
Definition
A school of thought that states that the reader brings his or her own experiences when interpreting a text.
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Pun
Definition
A play on words that is meant to make the audience laugh.
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Dramatized narrator
Definition
A narrator who plays a role in the story
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Omniscient narrator
Definition
A narrator who knows everything that happens in the story
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Limited Omniscient Narrator
Definition
A person who knows what some of the characters think and feel
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Unreliable narrator
Definition
A narrator that can't be trusted
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Oxymoron
Definition
A phrase that holds together words that seem to be opposites
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Diction
Definition
Word Choice
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Syntax
Definition
Sentence Order
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Etymology
Definition
Origin of a word
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of one sound at the beginning of words
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Assonance
Definition
Repeats vowell sounds
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Repeat consonant sounds
Definition
Repeat consonant sounds
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Shakespearean sonnets
Definition

12 rhymed lines and one couplet

ababcdcdefefgg

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Enjambed
Definition
A line in a poetry with no punctuation--often sounds like a run-on sentence
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Syntactic pressure
Definition
The more pressure to move to the next line of a poem
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Meter
Definition

Distinct stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

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Evaluating Sources
Definition
Academic caliber, date, credibility, and citation determine the strength of a source
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flashback
Definition
an author's writing technique where he or she returns to the past in order to understand a character's background.
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foil
Definition
Two characters that are similar in a story but distinct enough to identify differences.
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flashforward
Definition
A writing technique where the writer displays a character in the future.
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foreshadowing
Definition
a writing technique where the author gives us a glimpse of things to come.
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media res
Definition
an epic story that begins in the middle of the action.
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suppressing
Definition
A plot technique where the author purposely witholds information about the character until the end of the story.
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image
Definition
a message that a reader determines through his/her senses.
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Hyperbole
Definition
An exaggeration of an idea in order to create a reaction in the reader.
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Myth
Definition
A story that stands for something else.
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Drama
Definition
A type of fiction performed on stage.
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soliloquy
Definition
A long speech by one character to the audience.
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Monologue
Definition
Information addressed to other characters and/or the audience.
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Dramatic Irony
Definition
A situation is apparent to the audience but not the character(s).
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Verbal irony
Definition
A statement made that is the opposite of its intended message.
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