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Unit 5 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mood | An atmosphere created by a writer’s diction and the details selected. |
| Motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. |
| Motivation | the reasons for a character’s behavior. |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. “Pop.” “Zap.” |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. “Jumbo shrimp.” “Pretty ugly.” “Bitter-sweet” |
| Parable | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life. |
| Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. |
| Koan | is a paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain intuitive knowledge: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” |
| Parallel Structure | (parallelism) the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures. |
| Paratactic Sentence | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences. I am tired: it is hot. |
| Parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style. |
| Periodic | sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. |
| Plot | the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline. |
| Exposition | introduces characters, situation, and setting |
| Rising Action | complications in conflict and situations (may introduce new ones as well) |
| Climax | that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. Also called “turning point” |
| Resolution | the conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled; often called the denouement. |
| Point of view | the vantage point from which the writer tells the story. |
| First person POV | one of the characters tells the story. |
| Third person POV | an unknown narrator, tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. |
| Omniscient POV | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters. |
| Objective POV | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |
| Polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series. Instead of X, Y, and Z... Polysyndeton results in X and Y and Z... Kurt Vonnegut uses this device. |
| Protagonist | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action. Usually the hero or anti-hero; in a tragic hero, there is always a hamartia, or tragic flaw in his character which will lead to his downfall. |
| Pun | a “play on words” based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things |
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