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 1. Plot
• Term Definition: A plan or
theme of a story.
• A Literary Example: Romero
runs away with Juliet.
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 2. Setting
• Term Definition: The place or
type of surrounding where
something is position or
where an event takes
place.
• A Literary Example: “And
every day the boy would
come and he would gather
her leaves and make them
into crowns and play king
of the forest” the giving
tree.
 3. Point of View
• Term Definition: The position
of the narrator in relation to
the story, as indicated by the
narrator’s outlook from
which the events are
depicted and by the attitude
toward the characters.
• A literary term: “I don’t choose
to go there”
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 4. Characterization
• Term definition: The creation
and convincing
representation of fictitious
characters.
• Literary quote : "O, she doth
teach the torches to burn
bright! / It seems she hangs
upon the cheek of night /
Like a rich jewel in an
Ethiopia's ear; / Beauty too
rich for use, for earth too
dear!" Romero and Juliet
 5. Theme
• Definition: A subject or topic
that stays the same
throughout the whole story.
• Literary ex: The story "The
Boy Who Cried Wolf"
portrays the author's opinion
about honesty
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 6. Alliteration
• Definition: the
commencement of two or
more words of a word group
with the same letter, as in
apt alliteration's artful aid.
• Literary example: Rabbits
Running over rose.
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 7. Allusion
Definition: an expression
designed to call something to
mind without mentioning it
explicitly.
an allusion to Shakespeare |

a classical allusion.
 8. Analogy
• Definition: A similarity
between like features of two
things , on which a
comparison may be based.
• Literary term: Glove is to hand
as monitor is to computer.
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 9. Antagonist
• Definition: -the adversary of
the hero or protagonist of a
drama or other literary work
• Literary example: logo is the
antagonist of Othello
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 10. Aside
• Definition: on or to one side;
to or at a short distance
apart; away from some
position or direction: to turn
aside; to move the chair
aside.
• Literary example: He pushed
aside the chair.
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 11. Blank Verse
Unrhymed verse, esp. the
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unrhymed iambic pentameter

most frequently used in
English dramatic, epic, and
reflective verse.
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 13. Climax
• the highest or most intense
point in the development or
resolution of something;
culmination: His career
reached its climax when he
was elected president.
• Literary Example :In Cry the
beloved country when
Kumalo found out his son
died.
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 13. Comic relief
• Definition: an amusing scene,
incident, or speech
introduced into serious or
tragic elements, as in a play,
in order to provide
temporary relief from
tension, or to intensify the
dramatic action.
• Literary example: An example
would be Ronald Weakly, in
the harry Potter series. He is
Hurry's sidekick. And is very
 14. Conflict
• Term Definition-A problem or
big action in a story
• A Literary Example- “cry the
beloved country” Absalom is
arrested for murder.
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 15. couplet
• Term Definition-a verse joined
by rhythm
• A Literary Example-“Green
eggs and ham” I do not like
them in a box.I do not like
them with a fox.I do not like
them in a house.I do not like
them with a mouse.I do not
like them here or there.I do
not like them anywhere.I do
not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam I am.
 15. Diction
• Term Definition- the style of
enunciation in speaking or
singing
• A Literary Example-I hate hate
you !
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 17. Dramatic Irony
• Term Definition-to expree the
way you feel in a dramatic
way
• A Literary Example-to play in a
band or sing music
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 18. Dramatic
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structure
Term Definition- the structure
of a dramatic moment
• A Literary Example-the conflict
builds up to the structure of
the dramatic moment.
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 19. epithet
• Term Definition- the charistics
of a person
• A Literary Example-the way
the person acts in the writing
or movie
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 20. figurative
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language
Term Definition- a way of
putting something to mean
something else
• A Literary Example-I like
searching for mines.
 21. foreshadowing
• Term Definition- a warning or
indication
• A Literary Example-like in you
car if your not warning your
seat belt there will be
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 22. Foil
• Term Definition- to give away
or spoil
• A Literary Example-like when
your in a movie and your
friend tells you whats going
to happen
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 23. Imagery
• Term Definition- a visual
dissipation
• A Literary Example-something
that’s not the way it looks
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 24. Irony
• Term Definition-the expression
of ones meaning
• A Literary Example-the way
some thing looks
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 25. meter
• Term Definition-a way of
determent
• A Literary Example-the way
you measure in florin areas
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 26. metaphor
• Term Definition- a figure of
speech that applies to an
object or thing
• A Literary Example-the way
you can speak in stories
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 27. Monologue
• -a long speech by one actor in
a play or movie, or as part of
a theatrical or broadcast
program.
• -the play oscillates between
third-person narration and
monologue.
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 28. Oxymoron
• -a figure of speech in which
apparently contradictory
terms appear in conjunction
• - faith unfaithful kept him
falsely true
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 29. Personification
• -the attribution of a personal
nature or human
characteristics to something
nonhuman, or the
representation of an abstract
quality in human form.
• -the design on the franc shows
Marianne, the personification
of the French republic.
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 30. Protagonist
• -the leading character or one
of the major characters in a
drama, movie, novel, or
other fictional text.
• -the main protagonists were
Great Britain and France.
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 31. Pun
• -a joke exploiting the different
possible meanings of a word
or the fact that there are
words that sound alike but
have different meanings
• -the pigs were a squeal
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32. . Rhyme Scheme
• -the ordered pattern of rhymes
at the ends of the lines of a
poem or verse.
• -Whose woods these are I
think I know - a
• His house is in the village
though - a
• He will not see me stopping
here - b
• To watch his woods fill up with
snow -a
 33. Simile
• -a figure of speech involving
the comparison of one thing
with another thing of a
different kind, used to make
a description more emphatic
or vivid
• -as brave as a lion, crazy like a
fox
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 34. Situational Irony
• -An event occurs that directly contradicts
the expectations of the characters, the
reader, or the audience.
• - When 
John Hinckley attempted to assassinate
, all of his shots initially missed the
President; however, a bullet ricocheted
off the bullet-proof Presidential
limousine and struck Reagan in the
chest. Thus, a vehicle made to protect
the President from gunfire was
partially responsible for his being shot
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 35. Soliloquy
• -an act of speaking one's
thoughts aloud when by
oneself or regardless of any
hearers
• -she speaks!
• oh, speak again, bright
angel
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• Romeo and Juliet
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 36. Sonnet
• -a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of
formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having
ten syllables per line.
• -When I consider how my light is spent (a)
 Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b)
 And that one talent which is death to hide, (b)
 Lodged with me useless, though my soul more
bent (a)
To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a)
 My true account, lest he returning chide; (b)
 "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b)
 I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a)
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c)
 Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d)
 Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
(e)
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c)
 And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d)
 They also serve who only stand and wait." (e)
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 37. Symbol
• -a thing that represents or
stands for something else,
esp. a material object
representing something
abstract
• -the limousine was another
symbol of his wealth and
authority
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 38. Tragedy
• -an event causing great
suffering, destruction, and
distress, such as a serious
accident, crime, or natural
catastrophe
• -a tragedy that killed 95
people
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 39. Verbal Irony
• -a figure of speech in which
what is said is the opposite
of what is meant
• -as clear as mud
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