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Vocab January 24
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imagery | Creates a vivid mental picture; appeals to the senses |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration used for effect; over statement |
| Understatement | Saying less than what is meant, for event |
| Paradox | An apparent contradiction, which is nevertheless somehow true |
| Irony | When something is unexpected |
| Verbal irony | Speaker says one thing but means something else |
| Dramatic irony | Audience knows more than the characters |
| Situational irony | Something unexpected happens |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like and as |
| Metaphor | An implied comparison between unlike things |
| Extended metaphor | Metaphor spread over several lines |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea |
| Objective narrator | Tells only what the characters say and do; offers no interpretation |
| Stream of consciousness | Reader knows the inner thoughts of the narrator, writer usually shifts in and out if stream |
| Omnisciente ( 3POV) | Narrator knows all characters thoughts and feelings |
| Limited omniscient (3POV) | Narrator knows one characters thoughts and feelings |
| Unreliable narrator | Naive, mentally ill, biased, corrupt, immoral |
| Climax | Point of highes emotional inten |
| Conflict | Clash, disagreement |
| Denouement | The end; balanced restored |
| Epiphany | Sudden realization about life |
| Exposition | Opening, gives background information about characters |
| Foreshadowing | Hint of things that might happen later in the shadow |
| Flashback | A vivid memory of a past event |
| In media rays | Technique of beginning a story in the middle of the action |
| Plot | The arrangement of events |
| Point of view | Perspective from which a story is told |
| Rising action | Elements that build conflict and complications in the plot |
| First POV | Reader sees thoughts through characters eyes |
| 3 POV | Used he she it |