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Read. Mid-Term Voc 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the overall mood or felling established in a piece of literature | atmosphere |
| the writer of a literary work or document | author |
| a person or an anial in a story, a play, or another literary work | character |
| the arrangment of event in the order in which they occured | chronological order |
| the point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest | climax |
| all the emotions and associations that a word or phrase arouses | connotation |
| the strict literal (or dictionary) definition of a word | denotation |
| talk or conversation beween two or more characters | dialogue |
| a short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject | essay |
| overstating something usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect | exaggeration |
| a word or phrase that describes one thing iin terms of another and is not meant to be taken literally | figure of speech |
| the use of clues or hints to sugeest event htat will occur later in the plot | foreshadowing |
| a reasonable conclusion | inference |
| a contrast beween expectation and reality | irony |
| an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing | metaphor |
| the reasons a character behaves in a certain way | motivation |
| a comparison beween two unlike things using a word such as "like" or "as" | simile |
| any image, object, character, or place that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning | symbol |
| the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience | tone |
| information about something | nonfiction |
| a person's account of his or her own life or of part of it | autobiography |
| an account of a person's life or of part of it, written or told by another person | biography |
| the way a writer reveals the the personality of a character | characterization |
| a conflict that takes place within a character's own mind | internal conflict |
| a struggle with an outside force such as another character, society, or a natural force | external conflict |
| aa way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people | dialect |
| a writer's or speaker's choice of words | diction |
| a pros account which is invented and not a record of htings as they actually happen | fiction |
| an interruption in the present action of a plot to shhow events that happeed at an earlier time | flashback |
| words and phrases that describe something in a way that creates pictures, or images, that appeal to the reader's senses | imagery |
| a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feeling, thoughts, or attitudes | personification |
| the sequence of events that take place in a story | plot |
| a vantage point from which a story is told | point of view |
| the time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem | setting |
| the voice talking | speaker |
| the way a writer uses language | style |
| the main idea expressed in a literary work | theme |
| an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words | idiom (what- vhat) (accent) |
| the uncertainty or anxiety that a reader or audience fells about what will happen next in a story, novel, or drama | suspense |
| the emotional situation that a piece of literature tries to establish | mood |
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