literary terms 29-56
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- in a dramatic work, a speech in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts a loud
- sililoquy
- ____ irony is when someone says one thing but means another
- verbal
- ordinary language, speech, or writing which is not poetry
- prose
- ____ irony is when the audience konws more than the characters
- dramatic
- in broad terms, literature, especially drama, in which actions and events turn out disastrously for the main character or characters
- tragedy
- ____ irony is when one thing is expected to happen but something entirely different occurs
- situational
- a literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society
- satire
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a form of figurative language that makes a comparison between two things that have something in common
ex.Love is a door we shall open together. - metaphor
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it literally means "name-making", it is the process of creating or using words that imitate sounds
ex.hiss, bang, buzz - onomatopoeia
- a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens
- irony
- a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea
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personification
- to tell a story or give a description in detail
- narration
- prose writing that is about real people, places, and events
- nonfiction
- the time and place of the action of a short sotry, novel, play, narrative poem, or narrative nonfiction work
- setting
- language arranged in lines
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poetry
- the central character in a story or play
- protagonist
- a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself
- symbol
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a short moral story
ex.Bible - parable
- the attitude a writer takes toward a subject
- tone
- a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
- pun
- a technique used by speakers or writers to convince an audience to adopt an opinion, preform an action, or both
- persuasion
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the chain of related events that take place in a story
*exposition, rising action, climax, falling action - plot
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a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting
*plot, character, setting, point of view, theme - short story
- the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance
- parallelism
- imitates or mocks another serious work or type of literature
- parody
- the narrative method used in a short story, novel, or nonfiction selection
- point of view
- a stated comparison between two things that are actually unlike but that have something in common
- simile
- an extended work of fiction
- novel
- an exaggerated statement or account
- overstatement
- in literature, simplified or stock characters who conform to a fixed pattern or are defined by a single trait
- stereotype
- central idea or message in a work of literature
- theme