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english lit. vocab 2
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fore shadowing | the authors use of clues to hint at what might happen latter in the story |
| irony | a contradition between what happen and what is expected |
| three types of irony | situational- hwen something happen that is directly oppostite verbal- when something contradictory is said dramatic- this reader is a way of something the charcter are not aware of |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| simile | a figure of speeh using like or as |
| setting | the time and place of an action |
| personification | a type of figurative laguage in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |