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Eng Romeo+Juliet
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | A noun meaning, an occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
| Antagonist | Is an opponet or a person against one another |
| Author | Writer of book |
| Character | of a part or role representing a personality type especially emphasizing distinctive traits as language mannerism physical makeup |
| Climax | To reach the highest point, as in a story. culminate |
| Conflict | Difficulties, or fighting going on in the story between two or more characters, or within one characters thoughts. |
| Denouement | The final outcome of the of the main complication of the story. Also called resolution. |
| Dialogue | Lines spoken by characters in a play |
| External Conflict | a fight, agreement, disagreement or simply opposition in which two sides are present |
| Foil | A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of, usually, the protagonist. |
| Foreshadowing | A warning or a indication of a future event. |
| Genre | class or catagory of a book or play |
| Imagery | figurative or discriptive language in a literary work |
| Internal Conflict | A struggle, argument feuf that ocurs in a person, or group of people. |
| Irony | The expression of ones meaning by using language that normally means the opposite for a giving effect |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two things without using the words like or as. Basically saying one thing is something else but not literally. |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech by wiitch locution produces any incongruous |
| Paradox | a self-contadictory such as I always lie |
| Personification | Giving human chareteristcs to nin living things. For Example my rock can run to the street and back. |
| Plot | overall story line of the story |
| Point of view | A particular attitude or way of considering a matter: "change his point of view" |
| Prologue | Monologue or diaglogue to establish the play's background events |
| Repetition | The use of any element of language--a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence--more than once. |
| Resolution | An outcome of the conflict in a story or play. |
| Rising Action | The part in a story leading up to the climax. |
| Setting | The place and time of the story. |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using "like" or "as." |
| Symbol | something used for as representing something else like an object. |
| Tense | Tense producing mental or emotional strain |
| Theme | The subject of talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exibition; a topic |
| Tone | The additude towards a subject in a book |
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