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E10 Lit. Terms
E10 Lit. Terms Final Review
Question | Answer |
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When the audience knows something that the characters do not | Dramatic Irony |
the emotion a reader gets from a text or atmosphere | Mood |
when something is said, but something else is meant | Verbal Irony |
the main character who has the most to lose or gain | Protagonist |
any opposition, person or force, to the protagonist | Antagonist |
when a character has a personal struggle, or personal obstacle to work out | Internal Conflict |
any outside force that causes a struggle or obstacle for a character | External Conflict |
when an author gives a hint as to what is to come | Foreshadowing |
the perspective from which a story is told | Perspective |
the author's attitude toward a subject matter | Tone |
one of the characters is the narrator telling the story using the pronoun "I" | First Person Narration |
the stage of the plot that wraps up all loose ends and brings the story to a close | Resolution |
giving something nonhuman human characteristics | Personification |
the highest point of interest in a story | Climax |
time and place of a story | Setting |
an exaggeration for effect | Hyperbole |
a reference to something well-known to literature, politics, religion, history, science, etc. | Allusion |
the central message or messages that the author wants the reader to understand | Theme |
something that represents itself and something else | Symbol |
the narrator of the story knows everything, including inner thoughts of all characters | Omniscient Point of View |
when the reader must guess information about a character through actions or words of others | Indirect Characterization |
Dialogue | Conversation between two characters |
Speaker of a Poem | The Narrator's Voice |
Synonym | Two words that are similar in meaning |
when a character is on stage alone sharing their inner thoughts | soliloquy |
when a character is sharing a long speech on stage with another character | monologue |
a person who makes a judgment in error that led to his downfall | tragic hero |
when a character speaks to someone in a private conversation away from the main action | Aside |