| A | B |
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| conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| internal conflict | struggle with emotions and desires |
| protagonist | hero, main character moves the action forward |
| dynamic character | character changes throughout the story |
| suspense | anticipation of what is going to happen next |
| setting | where the story takes place |
| climax | highest point in the story |
| genre | kind or type |
| onomatopoeia | word sounds like what it means |
| simile | comparing 2 unlike things using like or as |
| flashback | past events are revealed |
| subject | 1 or 2 words about the poem/story |
| situation | beginning, middle, and end of the story |
| iambic pentameter | 5 iambs in a line of poetry |
| ballad | song that tells a story |
| haiku | japanese poem that contains 3 lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables |
| dramatic irony | reader/audience knows something that the character does not |
| director | interprets the wish of the playwright |
| theme | message or main idea |
| static character | character remains the same throughout the story |
| antagonist | villain, goes against the main character |
| iamb | unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| playwright | person who writes the play |
| aside | words spoken by a character directly to the audience |
| mood | atmosphere, climate, emotion |
| irony | contrast between what is expected and what really happens |
| prologue | introduction to a play |
| couplets | 2 lines of poetry that rhyme |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| speaker | perspective of the poem |
| metaphor | comparing 2 unlike things without using like or as |
| personification | animal or object takes on human characteristics |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line |
| external conflict | struggle against someone or something |
| tone | author's attitude |
| symbol | real object used to represent an idea |
| oxymoron | 2 words with opposite meanings put together for special effect |
| imagery | appeals to the senses, such as color and sounds |
| tragedy | involving serious action, defeat of the protagonist |
| situational irony | contrast between what sould seem appropriate and what actually happens |
| verbal irony | writer says one thing but means something totally different |
| foil | character who is used as a contrast to another character |
| prose | ordinary speech |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| oxymoron | two opposites placed together for effect |
| sonnet | a 14 lyric poem |
| epic poem | narrative poem that tells the events of a her0 |
| infer | educated guess |
| flat character | one ot two traits, which can be described in two words |
| round character | like a real person, has many character traits |
| apostrophe | addressing an object or thing as if it were a real person |
| free verse | no rhyme or meter used |
| plot | series of related events |
| foreshadow | events hint at what will happen later in the story |
| exposition | presentation of chars. and explanation of background |
| resolution | outcome of complication |
| allusion | reference to a well know idea, place, or statement |
| apostrophe | addressing an object as if it were an person |
| pun | play on multiple meanings of words |
| rhyme scheme | letters assigned to the end rhyme |
| parallelism | repetition of words, phrases,or sens. that have the same grammatical structure or state a similar idea |
