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Hooper Lit Terms
Hooper English 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Atmosphere (Mood) | the emotional feeling created by a work |
| Character | a person, or any thing presented as a person—animal, spirit, etc. |
| Protagonist | the central character of a literary work |
| Antagonist | a person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work. |
| Coincidence | A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged. |
| Conflic | the opposition between a character or characters and an outside force such as another character or characters, nature, or the supernatural. |
| Internal Conflict | a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character—the character is in conflict with, or fighting with himself. |
| External Conflict | a struggle between a character and an outside force or forces such as another character, society, the supernatural, or nature. |
| Figurative Language | describing one thing by comparing it with another; a phrase or word that is not meant to be understood on a literal level (especially metaphor, simile, and personification). |
| Flashback | a scene in a story when the present action is stopped to “flash backward” and tell what happened at an earlier time. |
| Foreshadowing | clues that hint about what is going to happen later in the plot. Foreshadowing helps to build suspense. |
| Idiom | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up; an expression that only has meaning to a specific group of people. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to one or more of the five senses. |
| Irony | :a difference or contrast between expectations and reality |
| Dramatic Irony | the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in the play or story does not know |
| Verbal Irony | a contrast between the literal meaning of what is said and the actual meaning/what the speaker/writer meant. |
| Situational Irony | when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate. |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as. |
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Deirdre Hooper
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