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Vocabulary 5-27-14

TermDefinition
Plot Plot is the series of related events that make up a story or drama
Mood Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
dialogue conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
setting time and place of action
tone The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject
flashback a scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backwards and tell what happen at an earlier time, flashbacks can provide background information, strengthen our understanding of character
foreshadowing is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot, can make a story more exciting by increasing suspense
indirect characterization When the author tells what the characters look like, does, sat, and how other character react to them.
direct characterization when the author directly tells what the characters’ traits are
dramatic irony Occurs when the audience has important information that the characters do no.
verbal irony Exists when a person says one thing and means another.
Situation irony Exists when what happens is the exact opposite of what is expected to happen
theme ­the main message of a story
First Person Point of View Narrated by “I
Third Person Limited narration limited to one character’s thoughts and feelings as the author’s own; he or she
Third Person omnisense Narration in which author knows and reveals several characters’thoughts and feelings
Climax key scene in the story-the most tense, exciting, or terrifying moment, reveals the outcome
Resolution/Denouement inal part of the story, the conflict is resolved
Internal Conflict is the struggle occurring within a character's mind.
External Conflict struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character
Created by: re052585
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