English Midterm
Plum Senior High; Ms. Turner
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- Verbal Irony
- A speaker says one thing and mean another
- situational irony
- stabbed then laughs
- Protagonist
- Good Guy
- protagonist
- superman
- dynamic character
- changes as a result of story's action
- Dramatic Irony
- occurs when the reader or the audience knows something important that a character does not know
- Satire
- Type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice or folly in order to bring about social reform
- Motive
- Makes you want to do something; the author reason for something
- prejudice
- to discriminate against another based on race, gender, education, wealth, etc.
- hyperbole
- a limo is as long as an ocean liner
- Antagonist
- Bad Guy
- dramatic irony
- romeo and juliet
- round character
- changes throughout the story
- satire
- animal farm
- Allusion
- reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is known from literature
- metaphor
- it looks similiar to a frog
- verbal irony
- break a leg
- static character
- character that does not chnage throughout the story
- irony
- bitter sweet
- Situational Irony
- what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate
- Mood
- Feeling in a work of literature
- flat character
- has one or two character traits
- Hyperbole
- Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
- allusion
- oh he is such a romeo
- Plot
- series of events in a story
- antagonist
- the joker
- Metaphor
- Comparison using like or as (it looks similiar to a frog)
- Situational Irony
- contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
- empathy
- feeling compassion for others by seeing life from his/her perspective
- motive
- everyone else did it