Literary Terms Flashcards

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A genre set in the future with imagined technology

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Science fiction

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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Comparison of unlike things using "is"

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Metaphor

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Narrator not in the story; focuses on one character's view

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Third-person limited

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Genre of fiction with magical elements

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Fantasy

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Time and place of a story

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Setting

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Very short folktale with a moral

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Fable

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Genre set in the past with real events

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Historical fiction

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Author explicitly describes a character

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Direct characterization

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Short autobiographical story

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Memoir