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Literary and Grammer Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repitin of consonent sounds at begining of words |
| Allusion | A reference of literary work in another piece |
| Apostrophe | figure of speech; speaks to absent character |
| Aside | When character speaks to audience and other characters dont hear |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| Atmosphere | emotional feeling created by the work |
| Audience | A group of people who listen or read the work |
| Flat Character | only has one or two personality traits |
| Round Character | highly developed personality Character |
| Chorus | A group of unamed characters in a work |
| Static Character | Stays same throughout story |
| Dynamic Character | changes throughout story |
| Consonance | repitition of consonant sounds |
| Comparison | to examine to note similarities |
| Internal Conflict | a struggle/conflict with self |
| External Conflict | a struggle/ conflict with outside forces |
| Contrast | to examine to spot differnces |
| Drama | a story that is written to perform |
| Figurative language | describing one thing by comparing to another |
| Flash back | when a scene flashes back to another point in time |
| Foreshadowing | cluse that hint to story ending |
| Hyperbole | Figure of speech which an overstatement or exaggeration occurs |
| Imagery | language that appeals to five senses |
| Dramatic Irony | when audience knows something the other character does not |
| Verbal Irony | a contrast between literal meaning and actual |
| Situational Irony | when opposite happens to what is expected |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as |
| Meter | The rhythm of poetry; pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Metrical Foot | smallest unit of meter |
| Mood | the atmospher or feeling created by work |
| Narrator | The speaker of work |
| Onomatopoeia | literary device where sound imitates sound it represents |
| Persona | the narrator; not author |
| Personification | figure of speech;giving non human things, human characteristics |
| Petrarchan Lover | a man whose feelings for a women are not returned |
| Pun | a play on words used two convey two meanings at same time |
| Rhyme | a pattern of repeated sounds in poetry |
| Setting | time,place, mood in literary work |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike thing using like or as |
| Symbol | something that represents another |
| Theme | main idea in the work |
| Thesis | the sentence in essay that exspresse main argument |
| Verb | (blank) |
| Auxilary/Helping Verbs | (blank) |
| Noun | (blank) |
| Verb | An action word |
| Auxilary/Helping Verbs | words that give exact meaning to verb; has, have ,had |
| Noun | Person place thing or idea |
| Pronoun | In place of a noun; her, is,their |
| Adjective | tells what kind; the__person |
| Adverb | modifies verb; ask how or when or where or why; "ly" |
| Conjunctions | joining words; because,while,as |
| Preposition | Position word; up down |
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randellp
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