english 4
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- figurative language
- used to create vivid words or pictures
- simile
- compares 2 things using like or as
- metaphor
- comparing 2 things without using like or as
- ode
- a long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme
- sonnet
- 14 line lyric poem with a single theme
- irony
- literary techniques involving surprising, interesting, or confusing contradictions
- imagery
- used to re-create sensory experiances
- mood
- atmosphere
- stream of consciousness
- presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a characters mind
- parallelism
- repitition of a grammatical pattern
- tone
- a writers attitude toward the readers and the subject
- epiphany
- a moment of insight in which a character recognizes some truth
- anacdote
- a breif accont of an event
- ballad
- songlike poem that tells a story
- lyric poem
- expresses the observation and feelings of a speaker
- allegory
- a literary work with two or more levels of meaning
- elegy
- lyric poem about death
- novel
- long work of fiction
- novella
- short novel
- theme
- the central ida of a literary work
- setting
- time and place of the action
- symbolism
- something representing something else
- fiction
- writing about imaginary events and characters
- non-fiction
- explains ideas, people and places that are real
- plot
- sequence of events in a literary work
- Hamlet (Plot)
- In the beginning, Hamlet, who is the prince of Denmark, is mourning his father, king of Denmark. Then he has to watch his mother marry his uncle only weeks after his fathers death.Hamlet sees this as betrayel. Then a ghost of his father appears and tells
- Hamlet (Setting)
- Denmark