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| Allusion | reference to a wellknown person, place, eent, lterary work, or work of art |
| Aside | short speech given by and actor in a play, expressing a charater's thought |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines |
| Characterizaton | act of creating and developing a character |
| Climax | high point of iterest or suspense in a play, novel, or story, turning point |
| Complication | keep a plot from moving too smoothly toward it's resolution |
| Conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| Dilemma | a situation whereas a person must choose betwee two equal alternatives |
| Direct Characterization | where the autho directly states a charater's traits |
| Dramatic Foil | a character who brings out the personality traits of another character in the play |
| Dramatic Irony | a contradition between what the character thinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| Exaggeration | overstatment used for humor |
| Exposition | witting or speech that explains a process or presents imformation |
| External Confict | whereas a main character struggles with an outside force |
| First Person Narration | one of the characters in the story relates the events |
| Indirect Characterization | an author looks like, does, and says and also how other characters relate to him/her |
| Internal Conflict | a character in conflict with him/herself |
| Irony | difference between: appearance and reality, expectation and result, meaning and intention |
| Limited Third per. Narration | tellinga story through the point of view of one of the characters |
| Monologue | speech by a character in a play, story, or poem |
| Plot | sequence of events in a literary work |
| point of view | perspective |
| resolution | shows how a situation in a story turns out and ties up loose ends. |
| setting | place and time of the action in a story |
| Soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
| Stereotype | a fixed and oversimplifed idea of what a person or group of people is like |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents somehing else |
| Theme | an insight into life that the author presents through characters and action |
| third person Narration | thenarrator uses the pronouns he, she, and they to identify the characters |
| tragedy | where the main character is in a catastrophe |
