Literary Terms Flashcards

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The perspective from which the events in a story, poem, or play are told

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Point of view

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Give

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Provide

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Important idea

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Key idea

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The way the author makes the reader feel through certain words or details

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Mood

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Help create

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Contribute to

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The main problem in a story, poem, or play

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Conflict

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When the author gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

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Personification

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The central idea, message, or moral of a story, poem, or play

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Theme

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A group of lines in a poem

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Stanza

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To find differences between things

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Contrast