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Unit 1 Lit Vocab
Collections Unit 5 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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What gives readers,actors, etc impt details that explain what's happening in the play? | Stage Directions |
What includes info about the time and place of action? | Setting |
What is the way in which a literary work is arranged or organized? | Structure |
What is a major section of a play that is similar to a chapter in a book called? | Act |
What is a act that can be divided into smaller sections? | Scenes |
What is the written conversation between 2 or more characters? | Dialogue |
What is an object, person, or place that can stand for something beyond itself? | Symbol |
What is a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect? | Hyperbole |
What are dictionary definitions of words called? | Denotation |
What are feelings or ideas that are associated with words called? | Connotation |
What is an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of individual words? | Idiom |
What is a humorous play on words called? | Pun |
What is a comparison between 2 things that are alike in some way? | Analogy |
What do playwrights use to describe events in which they occurred? | Chronological Order |
What is the way in which characters reveal themselves using personal qualities called? | Character Traits |
What is a special contrast between appearance and reality? | Irony |
What figure of speech compares 2 unlike things and uses the words "like" or "as"? | Simile |
What is a comparison between things that are basically unlike but does not contain "like" or "as"? | Metaphor |
What is the attitude that a character expresses toward a subject or another character? | Tone |
Through what does a playwright contrast what readers or characters expect with what actually exists or happens? | Situational Irony |
Through what does a playwright use in which the reader or audience knows something that a character does not. | Dramatic Irony |