Vocabulary Chapter 9
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- Foreshadowing
- A plot device that warns or prepares the reader about what will happen
- Analogy
- An implied comparison between two different things that resemble each other
- Deus ex machina
- When a random ass person comes in and saves the day
- Irony
- A figure of speech used as a literary device in which a contrast between appearance and reality or between expectation and outcome forms the basis for some rhetorical or dramatic effect
- Bildungsroman
- A Novel - autobiographical
- Climax
- The point of highest interest or conflict in the plot of a short story
- Juxtaposition
- The act of placing two or more things side by side
- Apostrophe
- Addressing of an absent person
- Flashback
- An interruption of the narrative flow in order to present scenes or incidents
- Anaphora
- repetition of initial words
- Epithet
- A word or phrase used to characterize a person or thing
- Malaporpism
- A humorous misuse of language that a results from substituting an incorrect word for one with similar sound
- metaphor
- a figure of speech implying a comparison between two different objects by saying one object is another
- Denouement
- The solution, Final Outcome
- Allusion
- A casual reference to a famous person or event in history
- Assonance
- Close repetition of similar vowel sounds
- Epistolary novel
- A novel about letters from people - one or more persons
- Didactic
- A term used to describe a piece of literature that is trying to force a moral or political theme
- Epilogue
- Concluding section that completes a literary work.
- Consonance
- The close repetition of constant sounds before and after different vowels