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Literary Terms
Terms 36-62
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| irony of situation | the contrast between what a reader/character expects and what actually happens. |
| dramatic irony | where the reader/viewer knows something that a character does not know. |
| verbal irony | occurs when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another |
| juxtapose | to place side by side for the purpose of comparison/contrast |
| litote | a technique of creating emphasis by saying less than is actually or literally true. |
| metaphor | a comparison of seemingly different things without using like or as |
| metonymy | a form of metaphor in which the name of one thing is applied to another with which it is closely associated. |
| moral | the lesson taught in a work |
| mood | the feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader |
| motif | an idea or symbol that occurs in a literary or artistic work |
| motivation | what drives a character to do what he/she does |
| narrator | the person (voice) who tells the story |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning |
| oxymoron | an expression combining terms that clash or contradict |
| plot | the sequence of action in a story |
| parallelism | the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance |
| personification | a figure of speach in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. |
| prose | the ordinary form of written language. most writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered prose. |
| protagonist | the main character of a story |
| paradox | a phrase that seems th contradict itself but is nevertheless true |
| resolution | the end of the control conflict |
| rising action | the events in a story that move the plot along by adding complication or expanding the conflict |
| symbol | a person place activity or object that stands for something beyond itself |
| surprise ending | an expected twist in the plot at the end of a story |
| style | the writer's uniquely individual way of communicating ideas |
| stereotype | simplified or stock characters who conform to a fixed pattern or are defined by a single trait |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as |
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