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Chopin/Fitzgerald Vo
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abandonment | A lack of restrain or inhibition |
| Vacant | blank, expressionless |
| Illumination | awareness or enlightenment |
| Composed | Self-possessed; calm |
| Blantantly | in an offensively obvious, unashamed manner |
| Precarious | Unstable; Uncertain |
| Flux | Continual shift or change |
| Precipitate | To cause to occur suddenly |
| Petulance | Childish annoyance, sulkiness |
| Mundane | ordinary; commonplace |
| Turbulance | an unsettled or changeable state |
| Plaintive | expressing or sorrow |
| Third-person limited point of view | The narrator is not a character, but is only able to tell what one character thinks and feels |
| Third-person omniscient point of view | The narrator observes the story from outside of it, and can describe the thoughts and feelings of all the characters |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| Verbal irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant; sarcasm |
| Situational Irony | a character or the reader expects one thing to happen, but something else happens instead; surprise |
| Dramatic Irony | the audience or reader knows something that a character does not know; suspense |
| First-person point of view | the narrator is the main character, and is limited to only what he or she can perceive or think |