7376227517 | Act | Division of a play | 0 | |
7376227518 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 1 | |
7376227519 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 2 | |
7376227520 | epilogue | short concluding section in a literary work | 3 | |
7376227521 | Farce | a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings intended to make the audience laugh | 4 | |
7376227522 | Hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence | 5 | |
7376227523 | Protagonist | the main character in a literary work | 6 | |
7376227524 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the internist thoughts of the main character | 7 | |
7376227525 | Villain | an evil or wicked person or character, especially in a story or play | 8 | |
7376227526 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 9 | |
7376227527 | dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters | 10 | |
7376227528 | Invective | abusive language usually from a poet | 11 | |
7376227529 | Mood | Elements that evoke feelings in the readers | 12 | |
7376227530 | Pun | A play on words | 13 | |
7376227531 | Slang | an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words | 14 | |
7376227532 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 15 | |
7376227533 | Flashback | present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described | 16 | |
7376227534 | First person | the narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns such as I and we | 17 | |
7376227535 | objective point of view | is not in the story and can only say what can be inferred | 18 | |
7376227536 | omniscient point of view | the narrator is all knowing and can enter the minds of multiple characters | 19 | |
7376227537 | Limited point of view | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character | 20 | |
7376227538 | third person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer | 21 | |
7376227539 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 22 | |
7376227540 | euphimism | PC expressions to refer to other names Such as Kick the bucket is death | 23 | |
7376227541 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 24 | |
7376227542 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 25 |
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