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Monologue | A speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character. |
Omniscient Point of view (Similar but not the same as 3rd Person) | When the story is told from the perspective of someone outside of the events but who knows and reveals all the character's thoughts and feelings. |
Protagonist | The main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward. |
Oxymoron | Two words used together that contradict each other, as in icy fire or sweet sorrow. |
Paradox | A statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth. |
Parallelism | Repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical patterns. |
Personification | Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing or substance. |
Plot | The sequence of events in a literary work. |
Second Person | Designated by the pronoun 'you.' There is no second person point of view in storytelling. |
Setting | Time and place of a literary work. |
Soliloquy | Speech delivered by a character when he is alone on stage. |
Symbol | Something seen that stands for something unseen, as a rose for love, flag for a country. |
Theme | Central truth or idea in a story. |
Third Person Point of View | When the story is told from the perspective of someone outside of the events of the story but who reveals only one character's thoughts. |
Tone | The writer or speaker's attitude towards the subject of the work. |
Tragedy | A type of story that portrays the fall of a noble person, usually due to a tragic weakness or flaw in his/her character. |