| A | B |
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| alliterartion | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| aside | a speech in a play when the actor speaks to the audience |
| assonance | repetition of a vowel sound |
| antagonist | a character in conflict with the protagonist |
| characterization | the way an author describes a character (say, look, thinks etc...) |
| climax | the turning point, highest point of interest |
| conflict | the problem or struggle |
| connotation | the feeling behind an idea |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| diction | an author's word choice |
| dynamic character | expereinces a significant change in a story |
| epic | a long, narrative poem |
| exposition | the opening of a story |
| figurative language | writing that is not meant to be taken literally (simile etc...) |
| foreshadow | hints or clues about what will happen next |
| genre | a category or type of literatire (poem, biography etc...) |
| imagery | uses the five senses in woriting (taste, sight etc...) |
| irony | what you think is happening is different from the reality |
| metaphor | a direct comparison between two unlike things |
| mood | the feeling the reader gets from reading a given piece |
| plot | the sequence of events |
| point of view | the perspective in which a story is told (1st, 3rd) |
| motiff | a repeated word, image or theme in a story |
| narrator | the person who tells the story |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents |
| personification | human characteristics go to non-human objects |
| protagonist | the main character |
| rising action | the complication in a story leads to the climax |
| static character | does not change in a story: oposite of dynamic |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| symbol | an object that represents something else |
| theme | a message or lesson a story tries to teach |
| tone | positive, negative or nuetral word choice |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
