Mrs. Weber's 9th Grade English
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| climax | the decisive moment in a novel or play |
| protagonist | the main character |
| antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story |
| rising action | the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax. |
| falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution |
| resolution | the solution or end to a story |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| genre | a major category or type of literature |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| external conflict | a character struggles against an outside force |
| internal conflict | A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character. |
| setting | The time and place of a story |
| irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens |
| imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience |
| theme | central idea of a work of literature |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character |
| flashback | action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding |
| mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| foreshadow | the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| first person | told from the narrator's point of view, using "I" |
| third person limited | narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts. |
| third person omniscient | the narrator is not in the story but knows and decribes all the character's thoughts and ideas. |
| third person objective | The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but he can't tell us the thoughts of the characters. |
| indirect characterization | The character is revealed through their personality, appearance, words, actions, and effect on others. |
| direct characterization | the writer specifically states what a character is like |
| novella | a short novel |
| epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections |
| drama | a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage |
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