9th Grade Semester Review;; English Mrs. Morris.
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- Theme
- The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization
- Synonym
- A word that means almost exactly the same as a different word; 'Close & Shut'
- Antagonist
- A character or force against which another character struggles
- Falling Action
- In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that it moves it towards its completion or resolution
- Personification
- The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities
- Symbol
- An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself
- Tone
- The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work
- Metaphor
- A comparison between essentially unlike things WITHOUT an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. (IS)
- Hyperbole
- A figure of speech involving exaggeration
- Setting
- The time and place of a literary work that establish its context
- Irony
- A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature; in verbal irony, characters say the opposite of what they mean; in irony of circumstance or situation, the opposite of what is expected occurs
- Conflict
- A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work; may occur within a character as well as between characters
- Alliteration
- The repetition of consonant sounds; especially at the beginning of words; She sells sea shells by the sea shore
- Climax
- The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story; represents the point of greatest tension in the work
- Assonance
- The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or text
- Resolution
- The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story
- Narrator
- The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author
- Cliffhanger
- Leaves a story with no resolution, makes you wonder.
- Rising Action
- A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's or story's plot leading up to the climax
- Exposition
- The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided
- Character
- An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work
- Imagery
- The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work
- Simile
- A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though
- Dramatic Irony
- A situation where the character is unaware of something the audience knows already
- Plot
- The unified structure of incidents in a literary work
- Protagonist
- The main character of a literary work
- Point of view
- The angle of vision from which a story is narrated; a work's point of view can be: first person, which the narrator is a character or an observer; objective, in which the narrator knows or appears to know no more than the reader; omniscient, in which the narrator knows everything about the characters; and limited omniscient, which allows the narrator to know some things about the characters but not everything
- Onomatopoeia
- The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
- Pun
- Usually a joke with two meanings of a word; 'I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.'
- Oxymoron
- When two contradicting words come right after each other; 'Icy hot.'
- Foreshadowing
- Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story
- Euphemism
- Saying something that could be hurtful in a nice way; 'Vertically challenged.'
- Innuendo
- A hint to something, not definite; 'Oh no, I don't want a present for Christmas!'