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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 setting | The time and place of a story |
| theme | The main idea of the story, a central message through a literary work |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told, exp first person, third person point og view |
| Foreshadow | gives clues that suggest what might happen in the future |
| paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth |
| flashback | authors presents material that occured earlier |
| symbol | anything that stands for something else |
| suspense | A feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work. |
| irony | general term to potray differences between appearance and reality or between expextation and result |
| dramatic irony | When the audience or the reader knows something that the characters in the drama/story do not |
| verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant, The contrast between what is said and what is actually meant; sarcasm |
| satire | a literary work that redicules the foolishness and faults of individuals or society |
| aluusion | references to well known person, place, events |
| non fiction | writing that tells about real people, places, and events, a true story |
| fiction | a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact, Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
| epic hero | is the larger than life central character in an epic |
| tragic hero | a disaster or great misfortune for the main character; the Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, they both suffer from the tragic flaw of impulsiveness that lead to their death.. |
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