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Unit 7 test review
Test review unit 7 Bob Jones Elements of Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |