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Reading sol terms
Mrs Holm's SOL reading terms
| terms | definitions |
|---|---|
| exposition | establishes setting |
| protagonist | main character |
| dialect | regional language |
| drama | story meant to be performed by actors |
| omniscient P.O.V. | storyteller knows all of the charaters thoughts |
| satire | ridicules the faults of a society or indiv. |
| first person P.O.V | character in the story tells it |
| paradox | contradictory statement |
| metaphor | one thing spoken of as if it is another |
| hyperbole | grand exaggeration |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| personification | nonhuman subject assigned human qualities |
| foreshadow | hint of events to come |
| alliteration | reretition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | literary reference to a well known person or event |
| symbol | object that stands for something else |
| irony | surprising unexpected contradiction |
| pun | play on words |
| tone | writers attitude toward his subject |
| diction | word choice |
| mood | feeling created in the reader |
| characterization | the act of developing a character |
| third person limited P.O.V | storytell knows the thoughts of only one character |
| syntax | word arrangement in a sentence |
| imagery | descriptive language-creates mood |
| climax | height of action |
| allegory | A story with multiple levels of meaning |
| flashback | reference to an event that has already occured |
| cliche | phrase that has become overused |
| foil | a character whose traits are in opposition to the protagonist |
| understatement | to down play the obvious |
| archetype | a character type that apears over and over inliterature ( stereotype) |
| climax | the highest pt of interest in a story |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| allegory | a story that acts as a metaphor |
| monologue | a speech made by a character on stage that reveals his innermost thoughts and feelings |
| author's purpose | The reason for his writing- answers the question, why did he write this? |
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