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OAT Terms
Stack #76137
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | when a writer or speaker refers to another work of literature--In Crazy Lady, Miss Annie talks about her favorite books. |
| Character | an individual in a story or play |
| Climax | the point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense within the plot |
| Conflict | a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions |
| Dynamic Character | a character who changes in an important and believable way during the course of the story |
| First-Person Point of View | the narrator is a character in the story |
| Flat Character | a character who has only 1 or 2 key personality traits and can be described in a single sentence |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect (overstatement) |
| Irony | a difference between expectation and reality - between what is said and what is really meant, what is expected and what really happens, or what appears to be true and what is really true |
| Limited Third-Person | the narrator is outside the story but tells the story from only one character's point of view |
| Metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word "like", or "as" |
| Omniscient | the person telling the story knows everything going on in the story, even the person's personal thoughts and feelings |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning; ex. BANG! |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor where a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| Plot | a series of related events connected together like links in a chain |
| Point of View | the vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
| Rising Action | all the action leading up to the turning point of the plot |
| Round Character | a complex character with many sides to their personality |
| Setting | when and where a story takes place |
| Simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word "like", "as", "than", or "resembles" |
| Static Character | a character that is exactly the same from the beginning of the story to the end of the story |
| Symbol | a person, place, thing, or even event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself; ex. lion= power, dove = peace (these are sometimes called public symbols) |
| Theme | the central idea or insight of a work of literature, the main message of the story |
| Author's Purpose | What the author is trying to accomplish through the writing-to inform, persuade, describe, or entertain |
| Inference | A combination of one's own knowledge and information supplied in the text which leads to a conclusion or generalization about a subject. |
| Main idea | The most important point that the writer makes in a reading selection; it can be stated or implied. |
| Dialogue | Conversation between characters in a story, work of nonfiction, novel, or play. |
| Mood | The feeling the author wants to convey to the reader through a work of literature (eg. excitement, anger, sadness, happiness, or pity) |
| Simile | A comparison of two un-like things using the words "like" or "as" (eg. The angry girl's eyes were like flaming arrows!) |
| Tone | The author's attitude toward his/ her subject (respect, pity, admiration, etc.) |
| Flashback | Characters talk about or remember the past |
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mcoffey
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