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english regents
Question | Answer |
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Antagonist | A main charater who goes agaunst the protagonist ( the main character who carries the action) usually the bad guy |
Flashback | when a character recalls a memory or some event that happened in the past |
Foreshadowing | a hint in the story that something may happen in the future |
imagery | wirds or phrases in the story that appeal to one or more of the five senses (taste,touch,sight,smell,sound) |
Irony | when the oppisite happens of what you would expect |
Metaphor | direct comparsion of two different things ( Example Her hair is silk) |
Narration | the telling of a story or event |
Protagonist | the main character who most of the action happens to |
Simile | a comparison between two diffrent things using "like" or "as"( Example: Her hair is like silk) |
Symbol | Something that stands for something else |
Tone | the author's attitude toward the subject of his.her story (sad,funny,mysterious,sarcastic,etc) |
exposition | introduces the characters and the setting |
Allusion | a casual reference to a famous or historical or literary figure or event |
Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds (ex: Sally sells seashells by the seashore) |
Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds (ex: "the bows qlided down the coast") |