7264319017 | Allusion | indirect reference | 0 | |
7264319790 | Apostrophe | direct reference | 1 | |
7264321091 | Conflict | struggle between 2 opposing forces | 2 | |
7264323125 | Diction | word choice | 3 | |
7264324333 | Fiction | "fiction=fake", literature created from the imagination | 4 | |
7264328535 | Foreshadowing | hint of what is to come | 5 | |
7264329859 | Genre | category of literary composition | 6 | |
7264331130 | Imagery | Visual-sight Olfactory-smell Tactile-touch Auditory-hear Gustatory-taste | 7 | |
7264336437 | Verbal-Irony | spoken irony | 8 | |
7264338472 | Situational-Irony | outcome is different than expected | 9 | |
7264339544 | Dramatic-Irony | audience knows something that the characters don't | 10 | |
7264342648 | Motif vs. Symbol | reoccuring symbol vs. representation that appears once | 11 | |
7264346645 | Paradox vs. Oxymoron | Paradox-can be a sentence Oxymoron-2 word contradiction Both-self-contradictory statements | 12 | |
7264351103 | Plot | introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution | 13 | |
7264354385 | Setting | time/place | 14 | |
7264355540 | Syntax | sentence structure | 15 | |
7264356800 | Theme | unifying motif | 16 |
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