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literary terms!
language arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the time and place a story occurs | setting |
| events in a story that revolve around a conflict | plot |
| the overall feeling that author tries to create | mood |
| a struggle between two opposing forces and the character attempt to resolve it | conflict |
| conflict between two people or one person and an outside source | external conflict |
| conflict within one character who is struggling with a personal decision | internal conflict |
| exaggerated statement | hyperbole |
| expressions which have different meanings than actual words | idiom |
| words that informally describe or are used when speaking with someone who is your contemporary | slang |
| a type of non-standard english used by a paticualr group | dialect |
| the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens | irony |
| the opposite of what is said happened | verbal irony |
| a situation in which the audience knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know | dramatic irony |
| when the exact opposite of what is normal or expected to happen, happens | situational irony |