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english regents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antagonist | A main charater who goes agaunst the protagonist ( the main character who carries the action) usually the bad guy |
| Flashback | when a character recalls a memory or some event that happened in the past |
| Foreshadowing | a hint in the story that something may happen in the future |
| imagery | wirds or phrases in the story that appeal to one or more of the five senses (taste,touch,sight,smell,sound) |
| Irony | when the oppisite happens of what you would expect |
| Metaphor | direct comparsion of two different things ( Example Her hair is silk) |
| Narration | the telling of a story or event |
| Protagonist | the main character who most of the action happens to |
| Simile | a comparison between two diffrent things using "like" or "as"( Example: Her hair is like silk) |
| Symbol | Something that stands for something else |
| Tone | the author's attitude toward the subject of his.her story (sad,funny,mysterious,sarcastic,etc) |
| exposition | introduces the characters and the setting |
| Allusion | a casual reference to a famous or historical or literary figure or event |
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds (ex: Sally sells seashells by the seashore) |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds (ex: "the bows qlided down the coast") |
Created by:
big mo