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English Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | the sequence of events in a story or play with a beginning, middle and end |
| macabre | horrifying; disturbing |
| foreshadow | the narrator's hints or clues about what will happen later in the story; a technique author's use to create suspense |
| Imagery | sensory details (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell) that create pictures in the reader's mind |
| Theme | a truth about life or people that we discover as we share the characters' experiences; the central idea, or message, an author expresses through the plot, symbols, setting and characters |
| Conflict | a problem |
| external conflict | character vs. character, character vs. environment, character vs. technology, character vs. machine |
| internal conflict | character vs. him/herself |
| irony | a contrast between expectation and reality |
| 3 types of irony | verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony |
| verbal irony | a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant |
| situational irony | when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen |
| dramatic irony | occurs when the audience or the reader knows something a character does not know |
| exagerration | overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect |
| pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings; usually used for humor |
| mood | the overall feeling or atmosphere the writer creates through descriptive words, the setting, and sounds and rhythm of words used |
| setting | the time and location a story takes place |
| science fiction | a genre of writing that lies somewhere between realistic fiction and total fantasy |
| elements of science fiction | futuristic setting, futuristic technology, journey through time or distant planets, imaginary characters, fantastic situations, surprise ending |
| personification | giving human qualities to something nonhuman |
| symbol | something that represents/ stands for more than itself |
| motif | an element in literature that recurs in stories from many cultures and from many periods of history |
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