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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 setting | time and place of a story |
| plot | sequence of events leading to the conclusion |
| climax | turning point of the story |
| conflict | struggle between different forces |
| foreshadowing | clues or hints of events to come |
| antagonist | the opponet or rival of the hero |
| protagonist | the hero or main character |
| narrator | the person telling a story |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| point of view | the perspective from which a writer tells a story |
| first person point of view | the narrator is a character in the story and used words like I, me, we |
| third person point of view | the writer calls main character "he" or "she" or "they" do not know inner thoughts |
| third person omnicent | narrator knows inner thoughts and feelings of all characters |
| mood | atmosphere of a literary work(spooky, cheerful) |
| tone | attitude or feeling conveyed to the reader (sarcastic, serious) |
| theme | message or meaning in literary work |
| appostrophe | a writer addresses an object idea or person who is dead or absent |
| dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or the inhabitants of a certain geographical order |
| flashback | a scene that interrupts the chronological sequence that happened earlier |
| foil | a character who acts as a cotrast to another character |
| imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture in the readers mind |
| irony | a discrepancy between appearences and reality |
| pun | a "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or words that sound alike but mean different things |
| symbol | a person, place, object, or experience that stands for something more than what it is |
| soliloquy | in drama, a long speech made by a character while no other characters are on stage |
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