| Term | Definition |
|---|
| antagonist | yhe person who actively opposes or is the cause of the problem for the protagonist |
| protagonist | leading character or one of the major characters in a fictional text |
| turning point | a time in which a decisive change in a situation occurs, where the character will never be the same again |
| theme | the subject of a story, the topic, what the author wants to give to the readers |
| plot | the main events of a fictional text devised and presented by the writer, storyline |
| soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers |
| sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines, used a lot by Shakespeare to start off an act or the play |
| oxymoron | a play on words where the words appear to contradict each other, but they also convey a specific meaning and a mental image. "Jumbo shrimp, cold fire" |
| simile | Comparing tow unlike things using like or as. "She is like an angel". |
| metaphor | Comparing two unlike things without using like or as. "She is an angel" |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
| foreshadowing | be a indication of |
| iambic pentameter | When a pair of syllables is arranged as a short followed by a long, or an unstressed followed by a stressed, pattern, that foot is said to be "iambic". |
| rhyming couplets | A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. |
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