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SOL Reading Review
SOL Reading Literary Terms--Part II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| narrator | a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. |
| first person narrator | the story is from the point-of-view of a character in the novel; uses "I", "we", "us", etc. |
| third person omniscient narrator | narrator that is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters |
| third person limited narrator | narrator that is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| verbal irony | where a speaker intends to communicate the opposite of what they mean |
| dramatic irony | the irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc, are understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
| situational irony | irony where the what occurs is the opposite of what is expected |
| stage directions | an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor |
| aside | a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play |
| symbolism | use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense; object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant |
| literal | taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor |
| irony | a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result |
| theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work |
| pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory |
| analyze | discover or reveal (something) through detailed examination |
| informal | of or denoting a style of writing or conversational speech characterized by simple grammatical structures, familiar vocabulary, and use of idioms |
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