English 1 Hon. terms
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- Foil
- any character who serves a contrast to another character.
- setting
- time & place of a story or play.
- alliteration
- repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
- onomatopoeia
- use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
- point of view
- vantage point from which a writer tells a story
- omniscient point of view
- the narrator plays no part in the story, but can tells us what all the characters are thinking/feeling as well as other things happening in other places.
- irony
- contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.
- situational irony
- what actually happens in the opposite of what is expected or appropriate
- dramatic irony
- occurs when the reader knows something important that a character does not know
- First person point of view
- narrator is a character in the story, uses I.
- Third person
- the narrator(plays no part in story)zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
- internal conflict
- is a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character.
- external conflict
- a character struggles against an outside force which may be another character, society as a whole, or something in nature(hurricane).
- idiom
- expression peculiar to particular language that means something different from literal meaning of the words. Example: Kick the bucket is an idiom for death.
- Dialect
- way of speacking that is characteristic of a particular region of group of people.
- metaphor
- fig. of speech that makes a comparison between 2 unlike things without using like, as, than, or resembles.
- theme
- central idea of insight reveled by a work of literature.
- static character
- does not change much in the course of a story.
- round character
- are complex and have many different traits
- aside
- only in a play, not in a story. words spoken by a character directly to the audience or to another character but not heard by other characters on stage.
- allusion
- reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politic, sports, science, or the arts.
- author's point of view
- the attitude a writer takes towards his topic.
- persuasive
- type pf writing designed to change the way a reader or listener thinks or acts.
- protagonist
- main character in fiction or drama.
- imagery
- language that appeals to the senses.
- cause/effect
- why something happens as a result of someone or something else.
- similie
- fig. of speech that makes a comparison using like or as.
- symbolism
- person, place, thing, event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.