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| Antagonist | a character or force in conflict with the main character. |
| Assonance | is the repetion of a vowel sound within words. often used to emphasize certain words, create a mood. |
| Blank Verse | is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. |
| Characterization | refers to the techniques used by writers to develop characters. |
| Climax | is the turning point of the action as well as the moment when interest and intensity reach their peak. |
| Conflict | is a struggle between opposing forces. |
| Consonance | is the repetion of consonant sounds. |
| Couplet | is @ consecutive lines of poetry that end with ryhming words. |
| Exposition | is writing or speech that explains, informs, or presents information. |
| Falling Action | Comes after teh climax which leads to the resolution or end of central conflict. |
| Figurative Language | is writing or speech not meant to be interpreted. Often used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things. |
| Flat Character | is a character who has only one or two true trait and doesn't change in the story. |
| Flashback | is a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequences of events to relate from an earlier time. |
| Foil | is a character who is contrasted with another character. |
| Foreshadowing | is the use in a literary work if clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. this techinque helps to create suspense, keeping readers wondering and speculating about that will happen next. |
| Free verse | is poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter; seeks to capture the rhythms of speech. |
| Hyperbole | an onbvious and extravagant exaggeration not meant to be taken literally, used for emphasis or humor. |
| Image | is a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses. |
| Irony | Name give to literary techniques that involve differences between apperance and reality, expectation and results or meaning and intention. |
| Verbal Irony | used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. |
| Dramatic Irony | there is a contradiction between what a character thinks, and what the audience knows to be true. |
| Metaphor | is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. EX: Life is a broken-winged bird. |
| Mood | is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Mood is often suggested by descriptive phenomena. |
| Onomatopa | is the words used to imitate sounds. |
| Parody | is a work done in imitation of another, isually in order to mock it, sometimes just in fun. |
| Personification | type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics. |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a literary work. Plot invloves both characters and a central conflict. |
| Protagonist | is the main character in a literary work. |
| Rising Action | introduces conflict(problem) and developes the story with details. |
| Satire | a style of writing that uses humor; sometimes gentle, sometimes biting-to critize people; ideas. |
| Setting | is the time and place of the action. |
| Simile | a figure of speech; in which like or as is used to make a comparison. EX: Her eyes are like the deep ocean. |
| Symbol | is anything that stands for or represents something else. |
| Theme | is a central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. |
| Tone | is the writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject, can be formal, informal, serious or playful, bitter, or ironic |
| Alliteration | repetition of the first consanent sound. |
| Haiku | 3 lined japanise peom that has to do w/ nature. |
| Sonnet | 14 line poem, lyric poem ( deals w/ emotions), rhymed iambic pentameter follows spusific rhyme sceam. |
| Diamante | 7 lines, lines 1 and 7 have one word that are opposite nouns, lines 2 and 6 end in -ing and they describe the noun it is closest to, lines 3 and 5 have 3 words and are adjectives for the noun it is closest to, and line 4 has 4 transition. |
| Five Senses | 6 lined, 1st line abstract concept and w/ color assosiation |
| Limerick | nursery rhymes, line 1 and 2 rhyme, lines 3 and 4 rhyme, and 5 rhymes w/ 1 and 2 |
| Name Poem | single adjectives, complex phrases can go on either side of your name. |
