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Literary terms 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Credible | trusted |
| Voice | a writer’s use of language and overall style created by tone and diction. |
| Persona | a mask or voice for first person point of view |
| Surprise ending | resolves a story in a totally unexpected yet logical way |
| Diction | choice of words |
| Theme | the central idea or insight about human life that a story reveals |
| Unreliable narrator | biased and cannot or does not tell the truth |
| Irony | a contrast of what the reader expects and what really happens |
| Verbal Irony | the use of words to mean something other than what is really said; sarcasm |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not |
| Situational Irony | when the reader expects something to happen but something unexpected happens instead |
| Point of View | the vantage point or perspective from which a story is told |
| Third Person Omniscient Point of View | narrator plays no role in the story, is “God-like” and “All-knowing”; knows all the character’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. |
| Third Person Limited Point of View | narrator plays no role in the story; tells about one character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. |
| Third Person Objective Point of View | narrator is a spectator of events and reports what is seen or heard; relays little to no thoughts or feelings. |
| First Person Point of View | narrator is a character in the story and tells the story using pronouns I, we, me, us, etc… |
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