| Term | Definition |
|---|
| audience | group of people who participate in a show |
| purpose | the cognitive awareness in cause and effect linking for achieving a goal |
| voice | active or passive |
| tone | a specific pitch |
| mood | mental or emotional state |
| imply | To express in a suggestive manner rather than as a direct statement |
| infer | To draw a conclusion (by reasoning). |
| inference | The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. |
| diction | The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and presentation. |
| situational irony | think the opposite thing of what is actually being said |
| verbal irony | think the opposite meaning of what is actually being said |
| dramatic irony | audience knows something that character might not know |
| points of view | A position from which something is seen |
| reliable narrator | A narrator that is telling the truth |
| unreliable narrator | A narrator that might lie and thus you are unable to believe it |
| 1st person | I or We |
| 2nd person | you |
| 3rd person | talking about yourself by using He or She |
| climax | turning point |
| types of conflict | Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Nature, Man vs Society |
| foreshadowing | suggest something about future |
| exposition | beginning |
| resolution | end |
| subplot | plot within a plot |
| subtext | implicit meaning of a text |
| flashback | character looks/remembers back on past |
| antithesis | two contrasting words next to each other (feather of lead) |
| flat character | one who doesn't change throughout the novel |
| round character | one who has a personality by not necessarily a dynamic character |
| dynamic character | one who changes |
| protagonist | the main character |
| antagonist | bad guy |
| subjective | without opinion |
| objective | only looking at facts |
| concrete | fact |
| abstract | not there (faith) |
| denotation | what the word comes from |
| connotation | tense of words (positive or negative) |
| literal | what it actually means |
| figurative | not actually there |
| genre | type of story |
| tragedy | romeo and juliet is a tragedy |
| comedy | funny |
| poetry | rhyming stuff |
| novel | a book |
| thesis | main idea |
| personal essay | essay written in first person |
| analytical essay | essay about a book |
| fiction | not true |
| non-fiction | true |
| hyperbole | exageration |
| repetition | occurs over and over |
| literary allusion | referring to a text other than the text |
| classical allusion | referring to old age in a text |
| imagery | words to paint a picture |
| simile | compare two things using like or as |
| metaphor | compare two things without using like or as |
| extended metaphor | really long metaphor (odyssey) |
| personification | A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities |
| pathetic fallacy | when weather effects the moods of the characters |
| dramatic monologue | a piece of spoken verse within plays that are often linked to key themes of the play |
| sonnet | 14 lines, couplets |
| end rhyme | the last word of lines |
| scan | to read a line and find the syllables |
| iambic pentameter | a poetic meter consisting of a line with five feet |
| couplet | a pair of lines with rhyming end words |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem |
| 4th wall | the audience |
| soliloquy | speech about a characters thoughts, said by him/her |
| stressed vs. unstressed | in words stressed is more emphasis and unstressed is less emphasis |
| feet | 2 syllables in a poem |
| meter | one line, 5 feet |
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