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Term | Definition |
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Narritive | The story or an account of an event or series of events. |
Dialogue | A conversation between two people. |
Setting | When and were the story takes place. |
Narrator | In a narrating a poem. |
Speaker | The ''voice'' narrating a poem. |
Protagonist | The main character in a literary work. |
Antagonist | A character or force in a conflict with the main character. |
Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. |
Inference | A logical guess based on evedince or reasoning. |
Theme | The universal truth about life exxpressed in the passage. |
Point of view | The perspective from which the story is told. |
First person | A character narrates the story with I-me-my-mines in his or her speech. |
Third person omniscient | The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of on of the character's. |
Symbolism | The practice of using a person,thing,or object to represent something else. |
Irony | When the reality of a situation is the oppisite of what is expected. |
Tone | The writers or speakers attitude towards the subject of a story,towards a character,or towards tghe audience. |
Mood | The overall feeling of a story. |
Figurative language | Language that uses words or expresseions with a meaning that is diffrent from the litteralinterpritation(metephore,simile,personification). |
Simile | A sentence that compares two unlike thing using ''like'' or ''as''. |
Metaphore | A comparison of two unlike thing without using ''like'' or ''as''. |
Personification | Givion human qualities to non living things. |