English Class Words
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- Polemic
- Angry rebuttal
- Paradox
- Something that seems to be contradictory but actually is true
- Orator
- A person who speaks beautifully
- Epic
- Big long story
- Protagonist
- Main character in a story
- Vignette
- Short description, short movie
- Raconteur
- Good story-teller
- Parable
- Story that teaches a lessons
- Stereotype
- Grouping a category and saying everyone is alike
- Eulogy
- Speech given at funerals
- Elegy
- Poem written when someone dies
- Vernacular
- Everyday language spoken
- Anecdote
- Short story
- Skit
- Short play
- Foil
- Someone who has the opposite characteristics of the main character
- Antagonist
- Person who causes the protagonist problems
- Irony
- Expecting one thing but the opposite happens
- Satire
- Something that points out faults in society while making people laugh while motivating people to make a change
- Fable
- Story with talking animals and a moral
- Parody
- Something that makes fun of something that is familiar