| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Allegory | Extended Metaphor; Characters only represent themselves. |
| Alliteration | At least 3 constanints that start the word. |
| Allusion | Refrence to other books often fictional. |
| Antagonist | The character that opposes the Protagonist. |
| Anti-Hero | Protagonist with opposite qualities of a hero. |
| Argument | Two or more characters in a disagreement. |
| Assonance | Opposite of Alliteration instead of constanints vowels are used. |
| Illustration | Drawing the describes a scene from the story. |
| Climax | The highest point in the book. |
| Couplet | The lines that ryhme in a sonnet. |
| Denouncement | Final explanantion of a plot. |
| Dicition | The word choice of the author. |
| Characterization | Creation of a fitious character. |
| Foreshadowing | A hint to future events. |
| Jargon/Slang | Slang Terminalogy. |
| Dramatic Irony | Reader knows whats happening and the character does not. |
| Figurative Language | Language not meant to be taken literal. |
| Foil | Character's opposites. |
| Imagery | Used to signify all objects in a work of literature. |
| Irony | An event that takes place with a past/present event. Cawincadence. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between alike objects. |
| Mood | The feeling or tone in the story or paragraph. |
| Oxymorone | Words that contradict each other. |
| Parrallism | Two events or people that are similar in virtues or meaning. |
| Personification | Giving inanimate objects features like a person. |
| POV | The vantiage point in which a story is narroated. |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as. |
| Soliloquy | A long lengthy speech that no one else hears. |
| Sonnet | A type of poem that has quadrants, three stanzas, and a couplet. |
| Symbol | An object that has a deeper meaning to it. |
| Theme | Central idea of the story. |
| Thesis | The main point of your essay. |
| Tone | The mood in which words are spoken in. |
| Tragedy | A drama were the central characters suffer great misfourtune. |
| Aside | Words spoken, usually in an undertone not intended to be heard. |
| Monologue | A lengthy speech said to some other character in the story. |
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