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Flashcards by Riley Babuik, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Riley Babuik
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Allegory | Characters are symbols that represent ideas |
| Allusion | A brief reference to something outside of the story |
| Alliteration | The repetition of sounds in a sentence |
| Repetition | Important words/phrases that are repeated for emphasis |
| Rhetorical Question | A question asked without expecting an answer |
| Antagonist | The villain of the story |
| Aside | A short stage whisper |
| Dramatic Irony | The audience knows something that the characters do not |
| Flashback | Going back into the past to clarify something |
| Foils | Characters who are opposite |
| Foreshadowing | Giving clues as to what's happening in the future |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Imagery | Using words to create an image in your mind |
| Metaphor | Comparing two things directly |
| Narrator | Person who tells the story |
| Paradox | Contradicting in meaning |
| Personification | Giving non-human things human characteristics |
| Plot | What happens in the story |
| Point of View | How we obtain information from the story (first person, third person) |
| Protagonist | Central character |
| Satire | A formal use of irony |
| Simile | Comparing two things using "like" or "as" |
| Situational Irony | When there is a difference between what it expected and what actually happens |
| Stanza | Division(paragraph) in a poem |
| Theme | Message or insight into the reader's life |
| Thesis | One sentence that summarizes a paragraph or story |
| Tone | Author's attitude to the story |
| Understatement | Making less of something than it deserves |
| Verbal Irony | To say something but have a different meaning (sarcasm) |
| Flat Character | Character who is stereo-typed, not fleshed out |
| Round Character | A complex character with many sides |
| Setting | Time, place and atmosphere |
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