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Literature midterm study

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What is the reason or reasons that explain why characters act why they do called?   motivation  
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What do you call it when the writer describes the character?   direct characterization  
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What is it called when the writer reveals the character through speech and actions?   indirect characterization  
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What is a recurring theme, or a message about life that is expressed in different cultures and time periods?   universal theme  
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What is the sequence of events in a short story called?   exposition  
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What is the name for the time and place of a story, characters, and basic situation?   setting  
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What is the part in a story that introduces the conflict?   rising action  
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what is the problem in a story called?   conflict  
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What is the turning point of a story called?   climax  
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In the story "Ribbons", where did the grandmother come from?   Hong-Kong  
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What is the part of a story when the conflict lessens?   falling action  
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What is the story's conclusion called?   resolution  
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What is the use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occure later called?   foreshadowing  
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What is the placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurences?   flashback  
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What are the people or animals who take part in a story's action?   characters  
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What is the way a writer reveals a character's personality and qualities?   characterization  
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Who is the main character of "Lemon Brown"?   Greg  
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How does Victor try to express Theresa on the first day of school?   he pretends he knows French  
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What do you call the central message expressed in a story?   theme  
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What is the sequence of events in a short story?   Plot  
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What are the tools writers often used to enhance their writing?   Literary Devices  
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What is another word for verses?   stanzas  
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What is writing or speech not meant to be taken literally?   figurative language  
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What describes one thing as something else?   metaphors  
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What gives human qualities to something that is not human?   personififcaton  
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What use "like" or "as" to compare two apparently unlike things?   similes  
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What is anything that represents something else?   symbols  
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What enhances a poems mood and meaning?   sound devices  
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What is the repetition of constant sounds in the beginning of words?   alliteration  
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What is the use of any element of language?   repetition  
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What is the use of words that immitate sounds?   ONOMATOPEIA  
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What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?   rhyme  
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What tells a story in verse?   narrative  
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What is a three line japanes verse form?   Haiku  
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What is defined by it's lack of strict structure?   free verse  
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What expresses thoughts and feelings of a single speaker?   lyric  
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What are songlike poems that tell a story?   ballads  
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What are shaped to look like their subjects?   concrete  
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What are five line poems with a specific rythmic pattern?   limericks  
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What are pairs of rhyming lines?   rhyming couplets  
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