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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | the plan, the main story of a literary or dramatic work |
| Mood | an emotional quality, character, or feeling at a particular time |
| Setting | the surroundings or environment of anything |
| Tone | the attitude towards the subject or towards the audience |
| Dialogue | a conversation between two or more persons |
| Flashback | a transition to an earlier time that interrupts the normal order of events |
| Foreshadowing | an advanced sign or warning of whats to come in the future |
| Indirect Characterization | personality of a character is revealed through the characters speech, actions, and appearance |
| Direct Characterization | personality of a character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, etc |
| Dramatic Irony | when the meaning of a situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
| Verbal Irony | when a person says or writes one thing but mean another |
| Situational Irony | actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so the outcome is contrary to what was expected |
| Theme | the subject of a piece of writing, a person's thought, etc |
| Climax | the most intense or important point of something |
| 1st person point of view | when you tell a story using I, we, etc |
| 3rd person point of view | telling a story using he, she, they, etc |
| 3rd person omniscient | telling a story in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story |
| Resolution | an answer or solution to a conflict |
| Internal Conflict | when the character struggles within theirselves |
| External Conflict | it occurs between two or more characters, or a character and it's environment |