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| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| inversion | reversal of the normal word order of a sentence |
| irony | contrast between expectation and reality - between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true |
| verbal irony | a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different |
| situational irony | there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens |
| dramatic irony | when the audience or the reader knows something improtant that a character does not know |
| lyric poetry | poetry that does not tell a story but is aimed only at expressing a speaker's emotions or thoughts |
| metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles |
| meter | generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| mood | a story's atmospjere or the feeling it evokes |
| myth | traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture, is basically religious, and usually serves to explain a belier, a ritual, or a mysterious nautral phenomenom |
| narration | type of writing or speaking that tells about a series of related events |
| narrator | the voice telling a story |
| nonfiction | prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places |
| novel | fictional prose narrative usually consisting of more than fifty thousand words |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning |
| paradox | statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth |
| parallelism | repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similar idea |
| persona | mask or voice assumed by a writer |
| personification | kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| plot | series of related events that make up a story or drama (exposition, conflict, main events, climax, resolution |
| poetry | type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader's emotions and immagination |
| point of view | vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
| omniscient point of view | the person telling the story knows everything ther is to know about the characters and their problems |
| first-person point of view | one of the characters is telling the story, using the pronoun I |
