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Finals Vocab 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Onomatopoeia | Use of a word which sounds like it means |
| Limited Narration | A narrator only knows what he/she experiences or learns |
| Omniscient narration | The "all knowing" narrator knows all of the details |
| Personification | Describing an inanimate object as if it were alive |
| Setting | Time and place for a piece of writing |
| Plot | What happens and in what order in a story |
| Dialogue | A discussion or conversation between two or more characters |
| Foreshadowing | Use of clues to hint at events that will happen later in the plot |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing characters or forces |
| Monologue | One character alone talking to the reader/audience/to himself |
| Internal conflict | An argument within one character's mind |
| Climax | The turning point or most intense part of a story |
| Falling action | The events immediately following the climax |
| Exposition | Background info usually at the beginning of a novel |
| Resolution | The part of the story in which the conflict ends |
| Irony of situation | When the reverse of the expected happens |
| Dramatic irony | When the reader knows something that the characters don't |
| 1st person narrator | "I" tells the story and is a character in the story |
| Allegory | A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor |
| Allusion | A reference in a literary work to a person, place or thing in history or another work of literature |
| Antagonist | A character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character |
| Ballad | A narrative folk song |
| Denouenent | The unraveling of the action; following the climax |
| Flashback | A break in the normal sequence of an event to show an earlier occurence |
| Verbal irony | The speaker means something totally different than what he is saying or the audience realizes |
| Protagonist | The main character or lead figure in a novel, play or poem |
| Symbol | A word or object that stands for something else |
| Theme | A repeated main idea throughout a literary work |
| Diction | An author's choice of words |
| Imagery | Word or words which appeal to one or more of the senses |
| Mood | The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work |
| Parody | A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work |
| Rising action | Begins with the exposition and builds to the climax |
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