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Read. Mid-Term 2021
Read. Mid-Term 2021 Part 3- 1 out of 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| a 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 prose 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 |