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STAAR_terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Italicized | Print (text) in italics |
| Assumption | Something taken for granted; hypothesis; theory |
| Illustrate | to furnish with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation; to explain something; to make clear |
| Conclude | to bring to an end; finish; to bring to a decision or settlement |
| Dialogue | conversation between two or more persons |
| Excerpt | a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film |
| Playwright | a writer of plays |
| Protagonist | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
| Antagonist | the adversary (opponent/rival) of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work |
| Symbolic Imagery | refers to images within an artistic work, often including novels, poems, films, and other works, which are symbolic in nature. |
| References | a direction in a book or writing to some other book, passage, etc. |
| Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
| Objective point of view | when the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue. |
| Figurative Language | of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal, as in figurative language . |
| Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| Hyperbole | an exaggerated statement |
| Alliteration | joining of two stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliter.), like stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to all. |
| Assonance | Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody . rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence. |
| Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. |
| Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream |
| Tone | a writer's attitude in a story |
| Mood | the general feeling the reader gets when reading a story |
| Symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| Flashback | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. |
| Genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music. |
| Narrative | a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. |
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