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English Vocab
Story Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | the sequence of events in a literary work |
| Rising Action | all the events before the climax |
| Climax | the high point of interest or suspense |
| Falling Action | all the events after the climax |
| Exposition | writing or speech that explains or informs the reader what the story is about |
| Resolution | any events that occur during the falling action |
| Theme | a central message, concern, or insight into life expressed in a literary work |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| External Conflict | a person struggles against some outside force |
| Internal Conflict | the struggle takes place within the protagonist's mind |
| Surprise Ending | a conclusion that violates the expectations of the reader |
| Science Fiction | writing that tells about imaginary events that involve science or technology |
| Allusion | a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| First Person Point of View | the narrator is the character |
| Limited Third Person | the narrator is not a character, but he or she presents the story from the perspective of the characters |
| Omniscient Third Person | the narrator is not a character in the story but views the events of the story through the eyes of more then one if the characters |
| Setting | time and place of action |
| Flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| Tone | author's attitude toward the subject and audience conveyed by the language and rhythm in the literary work |
| Foreshadowing | the work of using clues that suggests events that have yet to occur |
| Willing Suspension of Disbelief | voluntarily holding back your disbelief in order to enjoy the story |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows something that the characters do not |
| Irony of Situation | when an event has an opposite effects then what was expected |
| Verbal Irony | when a character means the opposite or something different then what he is actually saying |
| Turning Point | important moment in a story where the fate of the main character is more clear |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exageration |
| Personification | when the author makes nonliving things have human-like features |
| Acronyms | something that is not in order chronologically |
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