Lit. final vocab
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- rhythm
- a pattern of beats and stresses in spoken or written language
- comic relief
- when a character adds comical actions/thoughts throughout the play
- characterization
- description of the character, their personality
- dynamic
- character that changes throughout the story
- narrator
- someone who tells the story
- symbol
- something that stands for something else
- flashback
- event that happened in the past
- shakespeare's plays
- comedy, tragedy, history, always 5 acts
- falling action
- events leading to the resolution
- allusion
- a reference to another work of literature or the Bible
- dialogue
- the conversation between characters
- resolution
- end of the central conflict
- scenes
- a subdivision of an act in a play
- iambic pentameter
- unstressed, stressed, u, /, shakespeare usually used this in his writings
- setting
- where the book takes place
- suspense
- a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work
- comedy plays
- fantasy and reality/ confusion/ ends in love or marriage
- mood
- how someone is feeling in the story
- antagonist
- against the main character
- genre
- division or types of literature some example are prose, poetry, and drama
- monologue
- A speech given by a single actor or actress
- prose
- a form of written language using sentences and paragraphs
- point of view
- the way the story is told
- first person
- a character in the story who is telling the story
- figures of speech
- writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally
- foreshadowing
- clues to what is going to happen next
- tragedy plays
- impossible situations/ eventually die
- dialect
- a way of talking
- metaphor
- a comparison between two objects not using like or as
- personification
- type of figurative language in which non human subject is given human characteristics
- theme
- something you can learn from the story
- acts
- the major divisions in a play that are divided into scenes
- drama
- a story written to be performed
- rising action
- events leading to climax
- conflict
- the main problem in the story
- third person
- a voice outside of the story narrating
- characters
- people or things in the book, who the story is usually about
- protagonist
- main character
- aside
- in a drama character steps aside and says what they are feeling
- stage directions
- tells how the actor should look, move and speak
- history plays
- a play depicting a past or historical event
- climax
- the turning point in the story
- irony
- events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
- exposition
- introduction in a novel
- poetry
- written in stanzas
- simile
- a comparison between two objects using like or as
- inference/infer
- to make a conclusion based on evidence given in a writing
- plot
- sequence of events in a literary work, what happens in the story
- static
- character that does not change throughout the story