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| internal conflict | the struggle between opposing needs or desires or emotions within a single person |
| external conflict | a character struggles against an outside force |
| exposition/introduction | that part of the plot that gives the reader information about the characters and their problems or conflicts |
| rising action/complication | the sequence of events leading to the climax |
| crisis/turning point | the climax of the plot, (exciting, tense) a desision is made |
| falling action | the sequence of events leading to the resolution |
| resolution | the story is closed (ended) |
| protagonist | the main character |
| antagonist | characters who present an obstacle to the protagonist |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| sonnet | 14 line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter |
| figurative language | words or phrases that describes one thing in terms of another metaphor, simile, personification |
| simile | a figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | a figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things |
| personification | a special kind of figurative language in which a momhuman object is talked about as if it were human |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| allusion | a reference to another thing |
| soliloquy | an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
| dramatic irony | the audience or the reader know something important that a character in a play or story does not know |
| situational irony | the contrast between what really happens and what the reader expects to happen |
| suspense | the uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech in which the opposite or contradicting ideas or terms are combined (bitter, sweet chocolate) |
| satire | type of writing that ridicules something in order to reveal a weakness |
| comic relief | when humor is put into a tense situation to momentarily relieve the tension |
| tragedy | a work of literature especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character |
| verse | a single line of poetry |
| stanza | a group of lines of verse forming one of the divisions of a poem, it is usually made up of four or more lines |
| quatrain | a stanza or poem with 4 lines usually rhyming |
| prologue | an introduction to a poem or play, introductory lines spoken by a member of the cast before a dramatic performance |
| monologue | a long speech by one speaker especially one monopolizing the conversation |
| aside | a character speaks directly to the audience |
| foil | a character who is used as a contrast to another character |
| foreboding | a feeling that something bad is going to happen |
| theme | the central idea (the message) of a work of literature |
| meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| iamb | a metrical foot or unit of measure consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry consisting of 5 iambs (10 syllables) |
| end stop line | lines of poetry with some punctuation at its end |
| run-on line | a line of poetry with no punctuation at its end |
| rhyme | a piece of verse, which has a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, especially at the end of lines |
| rhythm | musical quality in language produced by repetition |
| couplet | two successive lines of poetry, especially two of the same length that rhyme |
