Flashcards: Mid-Term Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 characterization | the process of making people come alive through written words |
| direct characterization | author directly describes character |
| indirect characterization | the character is revealed through their personality, appearance, words, actions, and effect on others |
| simile | comparison using "like," "as," "than," or "resembles |
| metaphor | comparison saying one thing is another; doesn't use any connectives |
| direct metaphor | directly compares two things with a verb such as "is" |
| implied metaphor | a comparison that is suggested rather than stated directly |
| personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| image | a word that appeals to one of the senses |
| irony | a contrast between expectation and reality |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the character(s) do(es) not |
| situational irony | surprise ending; , occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| basic situation | the background of the story explains who the characters are and what their conflict might be (setting); exposition |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point; resolves the conflict |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| external conflict | a struggle between a character and an outside force |
| internal conflict | a problem or struggle within a character |
| resolution | the final unraveling or solution of the plot |
| omniscient | all-knowing |
| first person narrator | character in the story who tells the tale from his/her point of view |
| third person narrator | a narrator outside of the action who tells the story from the he/she vantage point |
| third person limited point of view | told using third person language, but author may know only what the main character is thinking or feeling |
| setting | The time and place of a story |
| atmosphere | the mood of the story which is influenced by the setting |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| onomatopoeia | a word that souds like what it means |
| alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound in several words |
| internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) |
| rhythm | The pattern or beat of a poem; based on repetition |
| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables; u u / |
| dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables; / u u |
| iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables; u / |
| trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables; / u |
| free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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