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| setting | time and place of story events |
| characters | people, animals or imaginary creatures in story's action |
| Point of view | narrative method used in story |
| First person POV | Narrator "I" is in the story |
| Third person limited | Narrator can read the mind of one character |
| Third person objective | Narrator cannot read characters' minds |
| Third person omniscient | Narrator can read the mind of more than one character |
| plot | sequence of story events |
| exposition | opening of story which reveals setting, introduces characters and set the tone |
| complication | problem |
| conflict | sturggle between two opposing forces |
| climax | Turning point. When forces come together to resolve the conflict. |
| protagonist | Main character in conflict, |
| antagonist | Force working against the main character. May be person, nature, supernatural or self |
| resolution | point at which conflict is resolved |
| theme | message about life or human nature |
| Irony | contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
| situational irony | a situation turns out differently than one would expect |
| verbal irony | when someone says one thing, but means together |
| dramatic irony | when the reader knows what is goint to happen to the protagonist before the protagonist knows it |
| imagery | words and phrases that appeal to the five senses |
| personification | figure of speech in which animal, object or idea is given human characteristics |
| metaphor | figure of speech comparing two unlike things that have something in common |
| simile | a type of metaphor which uses the word "like" or "as" |
| hyperbole | figure of speech using exaggeration |
| symbol | person, place, object or action that stands for something beyond itself |
| paradox | statement that seems to contradict itself bue is nevertheless true |
| dialect | distinct form of languag as it is spoken in one geographical area or by a a particular social or ethnic group |
| allusion | reference to well-known work of literature, person, place, thing, or event |
| mood | feeling author creates for the reader |
| tone | author's attitude toward his or her subject |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words like buzz and plop that suggest the sounds they name |
| rhyme | occurence of a similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words |
| oxymoron | a combination of contradictory terms example: cruel kindness |
| pun | play on words example: When Mercutio is dying and says, "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." |
