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Assessment Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archetype | A character, symbol, plot, or theme that occurs often enough in a work to have universal significance. |
| Figurative language | Language used as figures of speech, often in a non-literal way so as to express a suitable relationship between essentially unlike things. |
| Imagery | Sensory details that provide vividness in a literary work through a complex of emotional associations. |
| Theme | The underlying meaning of a literary work; the author's main idea. |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison between two ideas without using "like" or "as." |
| Setting | The place and time when and where the plot of a work happens. |
| Simile | A direct comparison between two ideas using "like" or "as." |
| Characterization | The means an author uses to develop the personality of a character in a literary work. |
| Foreshadowing | The providing of clues about what is going to happen in the plot. |
| Lyric | A brief, highly personal poem in which a speaker expresses a state of mind. |
| Antagonist | A character in a work whose outcome the reader opposes. |
| Analogy | A fully developed comparison between two things or ideas that are basically unlike. |
| Point of View | The vantage point from which the author presents the characters and action in a story. |
| Irony | A contrast between what seems to be and what actually is. |
| Rhyme | The repetition of similar or identical sounds in accented words or syllables. |
| Paradox | A statement, character, or situation that appears to be contradictory but is nonetheless true. |
| Irony | A contrast between what seems to be and what actually is.Verbal irony occurs when what is said is the opposite of what is meant. |
| Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration for effect. |
| Personification | The attributing of human qualities to non-living things or to animals. |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which an absent or even dead person, an abstract concept, or an inanimate object is directly addressed. |
| Satire | A technique using exaggeration, wit, irony, or humor to expose human weaknesses or social evils. |
| Tone | An author's attitude toward his or her subject matter or audience. |
| Protagonist | The character in a work whose outcome the reader favors. |
| Inference | A reasonable conclusion about characters or events in a work based on limited information provided by the author. |
| Allusion | A reference, perhaps indirect, to a person, thing, situation, or aspect of a culture, real or fictional. |
| Plot | A set of related events leading through and resolving a crisis and arriving at a conclusion. |
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