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| climax | high point of interest in a story, novel or play |
| diction | word choice - the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language |
| irony | literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters don'tcontradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true |
| plot | sequence of events in a literary work, usually involves both characters and a central conflict |
| setting | time and place of the action |
| aside | short speech delivered by an actor in a play, expressing the character's thoughts. Usually directed to the audience and is presumed to be inaudible to the other actors |
| monologue | speech by one character in a play, story, or poem |
| point of view | the perspective, or vantage point, from which the story is told-1st person if narrator is part of action, 3rd person told by someone outside the action |
| soliloquy | long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage- a speech that presents the character's thoughts as though the character were overheard when alone |
| character | a person or an animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| exposition | writing or speech that explains a process or presents information, in the plot of a story or drama, it is the part of the work that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation |
| protagonist | the main character in a work of fiction--the character readers would like to see succeed |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| characterization | qualities given to characters in book, the act of creating and developing a character |
| dialogue | a conversation between characters, and is used to reveal character, to present events, to add variety to a narrative, and to interest readers |
| foreshadowing | the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story, may be either a character in the story or an outside observer |
| resolution | end of the central conflict, how/when conflict is resolved |
| theme | a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work |
| action | what halppens in a story: succession of events in a literary work |
| narrative hook | exciting incident that gets you involved in the story,used to grab and hold the audience's attention, can hook the audience with an exciting image or event |
| complication | an additional conflict or problem usually part oof the subplotexample in The Contents of the Dead lMan's pocket is + the window was stuck |
