| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Allegory | Symbolic where in the story was made as a symbol |
| Allusion | referencein a book that represents thing, place,person to historical thing |
| Ambiguity | word in text has more than one meaning |
| Animal imagery | When given humans or things an animal characteristic |
| Antagonist | character who struggles against the protagonist |
| Apostrophe | a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. |
| Characterization | how we learn about characters |
| Conflict | man vs man, man vs nature, man vs society, man vs self |
| Connotation | the feelings or emotions surrounding a word |
| Denotation | dictionary meaning of a word |
| Diction | Authors choice of words |
| Figurative language | a figure of speech that is not literal |
| Framing | a story within a story |
| genre | category of literature or music |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| Imagery | using one of your senses |
| Dramatic Irony | A reader knows something that the characters don't. |
| Situational Irony | Purpose of action or result. |
| Verbal Irony | what is said is not really what is meant. |
| Antithesis Juxtaposition | Opp phrases, similar structure opp meaning |
| Oxymoron Juxtaposition | a figure of speech in which terms appear in conjunction. |
| Paradox Juxtaposition | a statement that leads to a conclusion that seems contradictory. |
| Metonymy | the substitution of one word for another among itself. |
| Litotes | opposite of hyperbole. understatement |
| Metaphor | comparing to things without using like or as. |
| Mood | a feeling we get from reading something. |
| Motif | an idea or element that keeps reacquiring. |
| Persona | a representation of one self in a character. |
| Personification | animal things or objects gets human characteristics. |
| First: Point of View | narrator tells story . My, I. |
| Limited 3rd:Point of View | narrator can only know one characters idea. He, she,they. |
| Omniscient: Point of View | any ones idea by narrator. |
| Protagonist | main character |
| Satire | use of human to make fun of something. |
| Setting | location and time where story takes place. |
| Simile | Comparing two things using like or as. |
| Soliloquy | when character talks to themselves when no one else is on stage. |
| Style | way author chooses how he wants to be shown |
| Symbol | something that stands for something else |
| Synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
| Synesthesia | using senses for something else |
| Syntax | the way sentences and words are arranged |
| theme | universal statement |
| Tone | the way you may sound in a sentence |
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