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- EXPOSITION
- The opening of a story, when the characters and their conflicts are introduced.
- CLIMAX
- The most exciting part of a story, the moment when teh outcome of the conflict is determined.
- FLASHBACK
- An action that interrupts the storyto introduce an event that took place in the past.
- FORESHADOWING
- Hints in the story that certain events are going to happen later.
- METAPHOR
- Compares two unlike things without using the word such as like or as.
- SIMILE
- Compares two unlike things by using the word such as like or as.
- VOICE
- The writers use of language and overall style, created by tone and choice of words.
- TONE
- The writers attitude toward a subject of a story, toward a character, or toward teh audience.
- OMNISCIENT POINT OF VIEW
- The narrator can tell us everything about the characters, including how they think and feel. Narrator is not a character in story.
- UNIVERSAL THEME
- It is the theme of all subjects and genres thinkable.
- THEME
- The general idea or insight about human life that a work of literature reveals.
- GENRES
- The different forms of literature. Short stories, novels, plays, poems.
- DRAMATIC IRONY
- When we know what is going to happen to a character but the character does not know.
- AMBIGUITY
- Unclearness
- VERBAL IRONY
- When someone says something but means the oppisite. NICE DAY when there are floods
- SITUATIONAL IRONY
- An event that is contrary to to the opposite of what we expected.
- SYMBOL
- An object, person, animal, or an event thatstands for something more than itself.
- ALLEGORY
- A story in which characters and settings stand for something beyond themselves, usually virtues and vices.