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Details Title: ENGL3820 Final Exam Description: Childrens Literature Total Flash Cards: 26 Created: 12/04/2005 22:10:05	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term sensationalism Definition unrelieved suspense Term Denouement Definition part of the plot from the climax of the story to the end of the story Term omniscient narrator Definition outside storyteller with virtual godlike powers Term hyperbole Definition intentional exaggeration Term sentimentality Definition The quality or condition of being excessively or affectedly sentimental Term foil Definition characters whose traits are in direct conflict with those of the principal character Term onomatopoeia Definition the word that resembles the sound it connotes Term alliteration Definition repetition of constant sounds at beginning of words Term spaciality Definition The placement of the main characters on the page and their relative size Term capillarity Definition term that describes overall busymness of the page Term book that the color changes throughout (purposly) Definition good night moon Term Thompson Definition created volume of folk tale motifs Term Vladimir Propp Definition identified 31 possible actions in a fairy tale Term assonence Definition repitition of vowel sound Term lyric Definition brief and discontinuous poetry that emphasizes imagery Term ballad Definition poetry that tells a legend or history Term narrative Definition poetry that tells a story Term limerick Definition short witty five line poems Term sonnet Definition 14 line poems with regular rhyme scheme Term motif: queen dances to death in red hot shoes Definition snow white Term motif: group of fairies usually 3 or 13 Definition sleeping beauty Term motif: bridge of one hair Definition molly whuppie Term motif: a frog Definition sleeping beauty Term motif: three real sisters Definition molly whuppie Term motif: male ogre Definition jack & Beanstalk Term motif: gothel Definition repunzel