Vocab Test #4
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- Plot
- planned series of interrelated actions and events that take place in a narrative.
- Rhyme Scheme
- pattern of end rhyme in a poem
- Autobiography
- story of a person's life written by that person
- blank verse
- unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter
- Analogy
- Comparison based on resemblance to things that are otherwise unalike
- Ballad
- a narrative poem intended to be sung
- Fantasy
- A woprk of fiction characterized by extravagant imagination and lack of reality
- Denotation
- the dictionary or literal definition of a word
- Man vs. society
- Conflict pitting man against norms or rules
- Realism
- Writing that shows life as it really is rather than as we spire it to be; a truthful imitation of actual life
- Stereotype
- Something or someone that conforms to a fixed or genral pattern without individuating marks or qualities.
- symbolism
- something that stands for or represents soemthing else.
- conclusion
- the end of the action, not necessarily the end of the story
- Flat character
- a character with one dominant, noticeable trait.
- effect
- meaning, or intent; the consequence of the outcome.
- consistent character
- a character that acts as the author says he should
- epitaph
- inscription on a tomb stone or grave
- Paradox
- a statement that seems contrary to common sense and yet is perhaps true
- bibliography
- work or list of works of a specific author or topic
- coincidence
- a sequence of events almost accidental that seems to have been planned
- connotation
- not the literal meaning of a word; the figurative meaning
- short story
- a short peice of fiction with few characters; can be read at one sitting
- sonnet
- lyric poem with 14 lines commonly written in iambic pentameter; shakespearean work
- Sarcasm
- Verbal irony; a cutting, sneering, contemptuous remark
- Motive
- something that causes a character to act as he does