How narrators, characters, or speakers understand their circumstances, and is imformed by their background, personality, traits, biases, and relationships.

Includes the time and place of a story, but it can also include the historical and cultural background of a text.

When the reader or audience member knows something that a character does not.

Occurs when the expected action is turned on its head and the opposite happens instead.

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Latin for "in the midst of things". It refers to a narrative that starts in the middle of of the plot as opposed to its exposition.

The act of giving human qualities to a non-human object, emotion, or entity.

Usually a reapeatd group of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.

The repition of vowel sounds in adjacent words.

A pause in a line of poetry, indicated by punctuation.

The cleaning or purging of an emotion in or caused by a literary work.

Sticks to predictable patters or structure.

Occurs when line of poetry continues onto the next line without any punctuation.

The act of contrasting to objects or images side by side and studying the effects of the contrast.

Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The convention Italian or Petrachan is rhymed with abba, abba, cde, cde; the English or Shakespearean is rhymed with abab, cdcd, efef, gg; the Spenserian is rhymed with abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.

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Vocab Unit 2

Term	Definition
Perspective	How narrators, characters, or speakers understand their circumstances, and is imformed by their background, personality, traits, biases, and relationships.
Setting	Includes the time and place of a story, but it can also include the historical and cultural background of a text.
Dramatic Irony	When the reader or audience member knows something that a character does not.
Situational Irony	Occurs when the expected action is turned on its head and the opposite happens instead.
Protagonist	The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
In Medias Res	Latin for "in the midst of things". It refers to a narrative that starts in the middle of of the plot as opposed to its exposition.
Personification	The act of giving human qualities to a non-human object, emotion, or entity.
Stanza	Usually a reapeatd group of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
Assonance	The repition of vowel sounds in adjacent words.
Caesura	A pause in a line of poetry, indicated by punctuation.
Catharsis	The cleaning or purging of an emotion in or caused by a literary work.
Closed Form Poetry	Sticks to predictable patters or structure.
Enjabment	Occurs when line of poetry continues onto the next line without any punctuation.
Juxtaposition	The act of contrasting to objects or images side by side and studying the effects of the contrast.
Sonnet	Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The convention Italian or Petrachan is rhymed with abba, abba, cde, cde; the English or Shakespearean is rhymed with abab, cdcd, efef, gg; the Spenserian is rhymed with abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.

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