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Unit 7 test review
Test review unit 7 Bob Jones Elements of Literature
Term | Definition |
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Two major types of literature | prose poetry |
anecdote | a special incident from the life of an important person |
autobiography | interpretation of an author's own life |
biography | history of a person's life |
comedy | play that ends happily |
tragedy | a play that ends unhappily |
dramatic irony | a contrast between what the reader knows and what a character in the story knows |
diary | personal record of the events in someone's life |
memoirs | a recollection of events from the author's public life |
situational irony | contrast between what a character expects to happen and what actually happens |
genre | "a common type of literature" |
journal | a person's daily record of happenings and impressions usually kept for a professional purpose |
diary | also records daily happenings and impressions, but is more intimate than a journal (not for professional purposes) |
true or false: Anecdotes are used in both biography and autobiography | true |