| A | B |
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| Metaphor | “comparison of two unlike things without using like or as” |
| Monologue | “A (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor” |
| Myth | “a fictitious (make-believe) story told over and over that explains something about nature |
| Narrative | “A story or an account of something that has happened” |
| non-fiction | “A book story or article which is based on fact” |
| omniscient point of view | “the vantage point in which a narrator is removed from the story and knows everything that needs to be known” |
| Oxymoron | “A special kind of concise paradox which brings together two contradictory terms such as "jumbo shrimp." |
| Paradox | “a statement or idea which seems to contradict itself but which may be true” |
| Personification | “giving human characteristics to non-human objects” |
| Persuasion | “a type of speech or writing whose purpose is to get someone else to believe or act in a certain way” |
| Resolution | “The final part of the plot of a story explaining how the conflict is settled” |
| rhetorical question | “A question posed by an author without an expected answer” |
| rising action | “the events leading up to the climax” |
| Simile | “comparing two unlike things using like or as” |
| Soliloquy | “a long speech in which a character expresses private thoughts while alone on stage” |
| stage directions | “directions for performing the play and descriptions of the setting characters and actions” |
| Symbolism | “Using words phrases pictures or images of the mind to represent meaning within a work of literature (e.g. red rose = love; dove = peace)” |
| tall tale | “A story exaggerated to the point that it is unbelievable” |
| Theme | “A main idea of life's truth expressed in a written work” |
| third-person point of view | “the narrator of the story pronouns are used in the third person like he she his her and they” |
| Tone | “attitude a writer or speaker takes toward the audience a subject or a character” |
| Tragedy | “Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance” |
| Understatement | “opposite of hyperbole creates an ironic or humorous effect” |
| Letter | "what Hester must wear" |
| Exposition | "Acts as the introduction in a story" |
| Washes | "Pearl does this to Dimmesdale's kiss" |
| Sin | "A morally wrong thing to do" |
| Move | "Hester suggests that Dimmesdale do this" |
| Hester | "Protagonist of The Scarlet Letter" |
| Repent | "To feel sorry for wrong-doing" |
| Bellingham | "the Governor" |
| Doctor | "What Chillingworth claims to be" |
| Symbol | "Stands for something else" |
| Confess | "Dimmesdale does this in the 3rd scaffold scene" |
| Needlework | "How Hester makes a living" |
| Dimmesdale | "Father to Pearl" |
| Temptation | "Dimmesdale feels this after deciding to leave Boston" |
| Revenge | "Chillingworth's goal" |
| Prison | "Jail" |
| Hawthorne | "Author of The Scarlet Letter" |
| Adultery | "Hester and Dimmesdale are guilty of this" |
| Father | "Pearl will only know a Heavenly one of these" |
| Commander | "Brings bad news to Hester" |
| Romanticism | "Values feelings and intuition over logic and reason" |
| Transcendentalists | "Emerson and Thoreau" |
| Dark Romantics | "Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville" |
| Mad Dog Craddock | "Billie Jo has a crush on him" |
| Bayard Kelby | "Billie Jo's father" |
| Aunt Ellis | "Invites Billie Jo to live with her" |
| Franklin | "Named after the president" |
| Louise | "Night school teacher" |
| Climax | "high point of interest or action" |
| Persuasion | "Type of speech or writing whose purpose is to get someone" |
| Metaphor | "Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as" |
| Foreshadowing | "a hint beforehand of what will happen" |
| Dramatic irony | "When the audience or reader knows something that the reader does not" |
| Paradox | "Statement or idea which seems to contradict itself, but which may be true" |
| Conflict | "The problem a story tries to solve" |
| Simile | "Comparison of two unlike things using like or as" |
| Oxymoron | "Special kind of concise paradox which brings together two seemingly opposite words" |
| Allusion | "Reference to a statement, a person, place, or event" |
| Soliloquy | "Long speech in which a character expresses private thoughts" |
