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Chapter 2
Reading Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| setting | the background for the action of a story |
| mood | the feeling created withing a reader through the author's word choices |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward a subject |
| atmosphere | this is determined by combining the setting, mood, and tone |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story. It consists of the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, the resolution, and the conflict |
| subplot | this contains a series of related actions, often revolving around secondary characters in teh story |
| flashback | a scene or event that happened before the beginning of a story |
| foreshadowing | the giving of clues about how the plot is going to develop |
| theme | the underlying message of a written work that usually reflects a certain outlook on life |
| description | is an author telling how characters look and dress and what their ages are, just as you might describe a friend of yours to someone else. |
| narration | the telling of a story through a speaker |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more people |
| dialect | is used to portray a character's cultural and regional heritage by illustrating his or her manner of speaking |
| characterization | a term that refers to the creation of a character through the use and interpretation of dialogue, actions, dialect, thoughts, etc. |
| literary devices | this consists of several different techniques that a writer can use to make their writing more interesting |
| imagery | the use of any words that evoke sensations of sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste |
| personification | figurative language that refers to animals, ideas, or things as if they were human |
| pathetic fallacy | is closely related to personification, primarily using human emotions or feelins in its comparisons. |
| symbol | an object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also represents a meaning beyond itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value |
| allegory | an extended metaphor that continues over an entire work |
| simile | a comparison of 2 unlike things that uses like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison of 2 unlike things that does not use like or as |
| ambiguities | ideas or images written in such a way as to make more than one meaning possible |
| contradictions | allow a reader to see in detail the differences between two ideas or two warring aspects of one character |
| irony | a contrast between what is said or done and what is really intended to be said or done |
| verbal irony | is the contrast or difference between what is said and what is meant |
| situation irony | the contrast between what is believed is going to happen and what really does happen |
| dramatic irony | is created when the audience knows something that one or more of the characters in the story do not |
| sarcasm | another type of irony that takes the form of a statement that is delivered as praise but intended to insult |
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