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This element of syntax is a form of repetition. It is a deliberate overuse of conjunctions.
ex. I ordered the steak and the chicken and the fish and the pork and the tofu for lunch. |
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| This element of storytelling/structure starts with exposition and ends with resolution. It also includes rising action, climax, and falling action. |
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| Elements of Storytelling/Structure |
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| Which of the four element categories from your chart should include flashbacks and foreshadowing? |
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| This is the language of everyday use; it is relaxed and conversational; it uses common and simple words, idioms, slang, jargon, and contractions. |
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| This type of character stays the same throughout a work of literature. |
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| This type of sentence makes sense fully only when the end of the sentence is reached. Ex. For when that greatest of all wars broke out and a multitude of dangers presented themselves at one and the same time, when our enemies regarded themselves as irresistible because of their numbers and our allies thought themselves endowed with a courage which could not be excelled, we outdid them both in a way appropriate to each." |
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| Authors may use this type of sentence to make their writing choppy and over-simplistic. Ex. Jane ran. |
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| Some authors may choose to use this instead of a well-developed sentence for effect. Ex. A one-eyed man. Fat belly. Bald head. |
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| This is the vantage point from which a story is told. It can be participant or nonparticipant. It can change throughout story. |
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(any three)
person vs person; person vs self; person vs nature
person vs God/fate; person vs society; person vs technology; person vs supernatural |
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| Name three types of conflict. |
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What type of sentence is this?
"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."
A. compound
B. complex
C. compound-complex
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| This category of literary elements is all about the choices an author makes about words. It includes choices about Formal, Neutral, and Informal Language; Colloquial Language and Dialect; Slang and Jargon; Abstract and Concrete Language; and Denotation and Connotation. |
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| indirect characterization |
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| This is used when writers reveal the personality of characters through what the character says, does, thinks, has, wears; where they are; the people with whom they associate; and what others say and think about them. |
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| This element of literature is the historical time and place, and the social circumstances in the “world” of the literature. It is rarely isolated and can affect structure, symbol, irony, tone, mood, archetype, and character. |
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| Sometimes an author asks a question that is not meant to be answered. He/she uses for effect. What type of questions is this? |
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| Writers often use this nonstandard subgroup of language with its own vocabulary and grammatics to reveal the region, economics, and class of a character. The words are misspelled to accentuate the way words sound. ex."Dat’s de good ole Cairo at las’, I jis knows it.” |
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| compound-complex sentence |
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| This type of sentence has two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. ex. Though Micha prefers watching romantic films, she rented the latest spy thriller, and she enjoyed it. |
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| An author uses this when he/she structures the text with a specific element at both the beginning and end of a work of literature. Ex. The story opens with a father reading a book to his son and closes with the father finishing the book. The characters and actions of the book being read are the characters and actions of the piece of literature. The father reading to the son is just a way to get into and out of the piece of literature. |
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| This term is used for words that are characteristic to a particular profession. |
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| denotation and connotation |
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What are these two characteristics of words?
1. The literal meaning of a word
2. The associations and emotional overtones attached to a word in addition to its literal meaning |
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| round and dynamic characters |
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What are these two types of characters?
1. characters that are complex and develop in a story and are not one-sided
2. characters that change throughout a story |
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| This type of sentence makes sense if brought to a close before the actual ending. ex. He decided to major in science, even though he really wanted to study art, philosophy, and religion. |
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| This category of literary elements is all about sentences and the way authors choose to structure them. It includes choices about sentence length and types of sentences. It also includes choices about repetition structures such as chiasmus, anadiplosis, and epistrophe. |
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| Authors often use this device to help you know a character more fully by telling about something that happened in the past. It is a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene. |
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| This type of language creates an elevated tone. It is free of slang, idioms, colloquialisms, and contractions. It often contains polysyllabic words, sophisticated syntax, and elegant words. |
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| These are recently coined words that come and go quickly that are used in informal situations. ex. my bad, awesome sauce, turn up |
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| This is the repetition of first word(s) in consecutive clauses, phrases, sentences. |
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| This is the repetition of last word(s) in consecutive clauses, phrases, sentences. |
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| This is the repetition of a word or phrase at end of one clause or sentence and at the beginning of the next. ex."Don't you surrender! Suffering breeds character; character breeds faith; in the end faith will not disappoint." |
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| This form of repetition is when the initial word or a sentence or clause reappears at the end. ex."They went home and told their wives, that never once in all their lives, had they known a girl like me, but they went home. |
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| This from of repetition is a sound device. It is the repetition of c, ch, s, sh, z sound. ex. Sing a song of sixpence |
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| These words denote intangible ideas, emotions, conditions, or concepts. |
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