Mrs Holm's SOL reading terms
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| exposition | establishes setting
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| protagonist | main character
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| dialect | regional language
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| drama | story meant to be performed by actors
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| omniscient P.O.V. | storyteller knows all of the charaters thoughts
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| satire | ridicules the faults of a society or indiv.
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| first person P.O.V | character in the story tells it
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| paradox | contradictory statement
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| metaphor | one thing spoken of as if it is another
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| hyperbole | grand exaggeration
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| simile | comparison using like or as
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| personification | nonhuman subject assigned human qualities
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| foreshadow | hint of events to come
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| alliteration | reretition of initial consonant sounds
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| allusion | literary reference to a well known person or event
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| symbol | object that stands for something else
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| irony | surprising unexpected contradiction
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| pun | play on words
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| tone | writers attitude toward his subject
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| diction | word choice
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| mood | feeling created in the reader
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| characterization | the act of developing a character
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| third person limited P.O.V | storytell knows the thoughts of only one character
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| syntax | word arrangement in a sentence
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| imagery | descriptive language-creates mood
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| climax | height of action
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| allegory | A story with multiple levels of meaning
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| flashback | reference to an event that has already occured
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| cliche | phrase that has become overused
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| foil | a character whose traits are in opposition to the protagonist
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| understatement | to down play the obvious
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| archetype | a character type that apears over and over inliterature ( stereotype)
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| climax | the highest pt of interest in a story
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| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces
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| allegory | a story that acts as a metaphor
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| monologue | a speech made by a character on stage that reveals his innermost thoughts and feelings
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| author's purpose | The reason for his writing- answers the question, why did he write this?
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