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

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sililoquy

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____ irony is when someone says one thing but means another

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verbal

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ordinary language, speech, or writing which is not poetry

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prose

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____ irony is when the audience konws more than the characters

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dramatic

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in broad terms, literature, especially drama, in which actions and events turn out disastrously for the main character or characters

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tragedy

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____ irony is when one thing is expected to happen but something entirely different occurs

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situational

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a literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society

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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.

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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

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onomatopoeia

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a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens

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irony

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a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea

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personification

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to tell a story or give a description in detail

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narration

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prose writing that is about real people, places, and events

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nonfiction

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the time and place of the action of a short sotry, novel, play, narrative poem, or narrative nonfiction work

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setting

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language arranged in lines

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poetry

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the central character in a story or play

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protagonist

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a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself

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symbol

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a short moral story

ex.Bible

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parable

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the attitude a writer takes toward a subject

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tone

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a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

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pun

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a technique used by speakers or writers to convince an audience to adopt an opinion, preform an action, or both

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persuasion

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the chain of related events that take place in a story

*exposition, rising action, climax, falling action

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plot

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a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting

*plot, character, setting, point of view, theme

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short story

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the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance

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parallelism

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imitates or mocks another serious work or type of literature

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parody

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the narrative method used in a short story, novel, or nonfiction selection

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point of view

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a stated comparison between two things that are actually unlike but that have something in common

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simile

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an extended work of fiction

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novel

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an exaggerated statement or account

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overstatement

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in literature, simplified or stock characters who conform to a fixed pattern or are defined by a single trait

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stereotype

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central idea or message in a work of literature

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theme