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Fiction/Non Fiction
Fiction is real and Nonfiction is not real
Fiction is fake and non fiction is not fake.
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Theme
Where the main character is from.
Why the story is told.
Where the story takes place.
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Paradox
What is the right idea in the story.
Opposing ideas that hold truth.
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Imagery
Teaches a lesson
Paints a picture
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Biography
Someone writes your life story.
You write your life story.
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Connotation vs Denotation
Con: Personal Definition/ Den: Dictionary Definition
Con: Dictionary Definition/ Den: Personal Definition
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Dramatic Irony
Opposite of what's expected.
Verbally opposite of what you expect.
When the audience knows more than the character
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Understatment
Exaggerating everything.
Deliberatly saying something is less than what it is.
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Symbol
A sign something is coming
Something that represents something else.
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Editorial Writing
Opinion writing
A writing with all facts and no opinions.
Has facts but mostly opinions
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Mood Vs Tone: Reader's Emotion vs Authors Emotion
True
False
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Abstract Ideas
One main idea
Multiple Ideas or Thoughts
A straight forward, basic idea
A really odd idea
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Idiom
Describing something figuratively not literally
Describing literally not figuratively.
Slang
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Colloquialism
Words explained thoroughly
Slang
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1st: I, Me, My/ 2nd: You/ 3rd: He She It
False
True
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Enjambment
Running on a thought during poetry
Switching your thoughts throughout a poetic story.
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Monologue
A long speech directed at one group of people.
A long speech directed for the main character.
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Ethos
Argument Based Form
Showing Emotion
Statistics
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Types of Genres
Different places to give a setting
Different types of themes to give a setting.
Different types of Plots to give a setting.
Different types characters to give a setting.
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Satire
Speaking literally.
Sarcasm or making fun of human weakness.
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Motif
Something that only happens once.
A reoccurring theme.
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Allusion
Refrences to literature and history.
An image in your head.
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Prose
Speaking a foreign language in a story.
Ordinary Language
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Soliloquy
Alone on stage speaking your inmost thoughts.
Speaking your thoughts to other characters in the story.
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Characterization
DIRECT: Telling/ INDIRECT: Showing
DIRECT: Showing/ INDIRECT: Telling
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Verbal Irony
Verbally opposite of what's expected.
Where the audience knows more than the character.
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Vignette
Why the story is told
A couple of sentences that memorizes images
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Ambiguity
More than one interpretion
An interpretation on the story.
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Logos
Statistics/ Facts
Argument Based Form
Shows Emotion
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Situational Irony
What you expect
Not what you expect
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Aside
Characters talks on stage but no one hears them.
Characters talks quietlyy but everyone hears them.
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Autobiography
Somone writes your life story.
You write your life story.
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Epigraph
A short quote to start the book and lead the tone.
A short quote to close the story or book.
A repeating quote in the story.
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Pathos
Showing Emotion
Statistics/ Facts
Argument Based Form
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Hyperbole and Understatement are both exaggeration.
False
True
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Allegory
Teaches a lesson
Paints a picture
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Sensory Details
See, Feel, Taste, Smell, Hear
Love, Feel, See, Hear
Smell, See, Hear, Taste, Feel, Love
See, Hear, Taste
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Memoir
Someone else writes your life story.
Historical account/biography from a personal source
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Juxtaposition
Arrangement of 2 ideas for a purpose.
Making 2 ideas out of order for no reason.
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A Diction is a sentence while a syntax is a word choice.
True
False
