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| 324780579 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | |
| 324780580 | Allusion | passing reference or indirect mention | |
| 324780581 | Antagonist | a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | |
| 324780582 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | |
| 324780583 | Atmosphere | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | |
| 324780584 | Characterization | acting the part of a character on stage | |
| 324780585 | Chronolgical Order | a method of speech in which main points follow a time pattern....used for informative speeches | |
| 324780586 | Climax | the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | |
| 324780587 | Complication | the act or process of complicating | |
| 324780588 | Conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something | |
| 324780589 | Consonance | the property of sounding harmonious | |
| 324780590 | Dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | |
| 324780591 | Dialogue | a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | |
| 324780592 | Diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words | |
| 324780593 | direct chacterization | in which writter plainly tell us about the people who inhabit their fictional worlds | |
| 324780594 | Dramatic Irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | |
| 324780595 | Dynamic Character | one whose character changes in the course of the play or story | |
| 324780596 | Exposition | a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | |
| 324780597 | External Conflict | a problem or struggle between a character and someone or something outside of the character | |
| 324780598 | Falling Action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution | |
| 324780599 | Figurative expressions | a vast and variegated territory comprising figures of thought, syntax, and sound | |
| 324780600 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | |
| 324780601 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | |
| 324780602 | Flashback | a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story | |
| 324780603 | Flat Character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | |
| 324780604 | Foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal | |
| 324780605 | Foreshadowing | the act of providing vague advance indications | |
| 324780606 | Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | |
| 324780607 | Imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events | |
| 324780608 | Implied theme | when the theme is not directly stated in the story; the reader must infer | |
| 324780609 | indirect Characterization | the character is revealed through their personality, appearance, words, actions, and effect on others | |
| 324780610 | Internal Conflict | a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character | |
| 324780611 | Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | |
| 324780612 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | |
| 324780613 | Mood | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | |
| 324780614 | Narrator | someone who tells a story | |
| 324780615 | Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | |
| 324780616 | Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | |
| 324780617 | Plot | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) | |
| 324780618 | Point of view | the spatial property of the position from which something is observed | |
| 324780619 | Protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction | |
| 324780620 | Resolution | finding a solution to a problem | |
| 324780621 | Rising Action | events leading up to the climax | |
| 324780622 | Round Character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background | |
| 324780623 | Setting | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | |
| 324780624 | Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | |
| 324780625 | Situational irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | |
| 324780626 | Stated theme | theme is stated directly | |
| 324780627 | Static Character | a character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | |
| 324780628 | Suspense | an uncertain cognitive state | |
| 324780629 | Symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | |
| 324780630 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | |
| 324780631 | Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | |
| 324780632 | Third Person Limited Point of View | narrator outside the story sees the world through one character's eyes and reveals only that character's thoughts. | |
| 324780633 | Third Person Ominiscient Point of View | The person does not participate in the story but knows everything about all of the characters. | |
| 324780634 | Third Person Point of VIew | someone on the outside is looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold. | |
| 324780635 | Tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color | |
| 324780636 | Tone of Voice | the quality of a person's voice | |
| 324780637 | tragic Hero | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy | |
| 324780638 | Universal theme | This is the central message of a story, poem, novel, or play that many readers can apply to their own experiences, or to those of all people. | |
| 324780639 | Verbal Irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought |
