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Fiction Study
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Narrator | The character or view that relates, the story's events to the readers |
| Theme | Central idea, the underlying message about life or human nature that the writer wants the reader to understand |
| Setting | The time and place of the action of a story |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward a subject |
| Dialogue | written conversation between 2 or more characters |
| Foreshadowing | A writers use of hints or clues to suggest what will occur later in a story |
| Allusion | An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work |
| Imagery | Descriptive words or phases that recreate sentry experiences for the reader |
| Satire | A literary technique in which ideas, customs or institutions ridicules for the purpose of creating society |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces |
| Internal Conflict | A struggle occurring within a character |
| External Conflict | A struggle between a character plus an outside force |
| Exposition | introduce the characters, setting, and background info |
| Inciting incident | the introduce the central conflict |
| Rising Action | all of the events leading up to the climax |
| Climax | the highest point of suspense |
| Falling Action | the events following the climax |
| Resolution | the point at which the conflict is resolved |
| Denouement | the loose ends are tied up |
| Irony | a contrast between appearance and reality one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems |
| Verbal Irony | when a character knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another |
| Situational Irony | a contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually happens |
| Dramatic irony | a situation where the reader or viewer knows that the character does not know |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparing two unlike things which have something in common |
| Hyperbole | figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which human qualities are given to objects, animals or ideas |
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