english poetry ****
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bobshallrule on April 25, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 plot | series of events in a story |
| simile | camparison of unlike things compared by like or as |
| metaphor | comparison of unlike things which doesnt use like or as |
| personification | giving human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
| imagery | using language to create sensory experience |
| symbol | using a concrete person, place, thing, or action to represent an abstract idea |
| prose | the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing |
| setting | the time and place in a novel |
| poetry | literature that often has rhyme and meter |
| character(ization) | how the author creates people |
| novel | a long piece of prose fiction |
| theme | the message or big idea about life in the book |
| drama | a work of literature intended to be performed by actors on a stage |
| conflict | the element that keeps the plot moving. (man vs. man, man vs. God...) |
| paradox | a contradictory statement that nevertheless is true |
| diction | the words you choose to speak |
| irony | when the intended meaning is different from the literal meaning |
| mood | the feeling the author creates |
| biography | a book written about a person's life |
| autobiography | a book someone wrote about their own life |
| memoir | a book written about a certain time in a person's life |
| tone | the author's attitude towards the reader and character |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word |
| connotation | all of the other meanings attatched to the word |
| rhetoric | the art of persuading or arguing |
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