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| setting | The time and location of where a story takes placeThe general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs |
| soliloquy | A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone. The technique frequently reveals a character's innermost thoughts, including his feelings, state of mind, motives or intentions. |
| alliteration | Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. For instance, the phrase "buckets of big blue berries" alliterates with the consonant b. |
| climax | The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. |
| A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art in another literary work is | an allusion |
| A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice or folly in order to bring about social reform is called | satire |
| The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot is known as | foreshadowing |
| (the most important type for literature) involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know. In that situation, the character acts in a way we recognize to be grossly inappropriate to the actual circumstances, or the character expects the opposite of what the reader knows that fate holds in store, or the character anticipates a particular outcome that unfolds itself in an unintentional way. The literary element otherwise known as sarcasm is | dramatic irony |
| The writer's attitude toward the reader, a subject, or character is called | tone |
| It is an error in judgment or a character weakness that causes a character's downfall; for example, Macbeth's greed and lust for power was his | tragic flaw |
| Which of the following quotations contains hyperbole? Hyperbole is over exaggerating something | I would love you ten years before the Flood,/ And you should, if you please, refuse/Till the conversion of the Jews. |
| The following line contains an example of what literary element? She walks in beauty, like the night. | simile |
