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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plot | a series of related events that make up a story or drama |
| Theme | central idea of a work of literature |
| Point of View | vantage point from which a story is told |
| Characterization | the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story |
| Exposition | type of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifies an idea |
| Rising action | a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. |
| Climax | moments of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot |
| Falling action | the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved. |
| Denouncement | unraveling of the knot |
| Resolution | the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, |
| Setting | time and place of a story or play |
| Verbal irony | when the writer says one thing but means something completely different |
| Situational irony | when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens |
| Dramatic irony | when the audience or reader knows something that the character in a story or play doesn't know |
| Mood | a story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes |
| Tone | attitude writer takes towards a subject character or the audience |
| Protagonist | main character in fiction or drama |
| Antagonist | the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar sounds usually at the beginning of words that are close together in a poem or piece of literature |
| Allusion | reference to s statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
| Anachronism | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time |
| Metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the words like, as, or than |
| Monologue | a prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker |
| Soliloquy | long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
| Simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like, as, resembles, or than |
| Dialogue | the conversation between characters in a story or play |
| Motif | a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary work |
| Anecdote | very, very brief story, usually told to make a point |
| Aside | words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by others onstage |
| Drama | story that is written to be acted for an audience |
| Flashback | scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
| Flash | forward-a scene in a move, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to shift into the future |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| Paradox | statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth |
| Parallelism | repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure, or that state a similar idea |
| Personification | kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| Satire | type of writing that ridicules something-a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing. A social institution- in order to reveal a weakness |
| Suspense | uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story |
| Symbol | ... |
| Hyperbole | figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect |
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