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A serious play with a tragic theme.
What is a tragedy?
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Vivid and descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
The emotional atmosphere of a literary work., the feeling a reader gets from a story.
What is mood?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowning?
A figure of speech that directly compares two different things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
the simplest type of an explicit theme
What is a moral?
A literary work that references other works, events, or figures.
What is an allusion?
This term refers to a conversation between characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
A scene in a story that interrupts the present action to depict events that happened earlier.
What is flashback?
The process by which the author reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
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In this type of irony, the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is situational irony?
A struggle that takes place within the mind of a character.
What is internal conflict?
The author's attitude toward the subject or audience.
What is tone?
comparison between two things that are unrelated but share common characteristics WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This is the central idea or message in a work of literature.
What is theme?
A literary device where the audience or readers know more than the characters on stage or in a story.
What is dramatic irony?
Ideas about life that are found throughout literature and can be understood by people of all times and places
What is a universal theme?
a person, place or object that represents something other than itself
What is a symbol?
This narrative technique involves a story within a story.
What is a frame story?
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A narrative mode where the narrator knows and sees all.
What is omniscient point of view?
The reason an author writes a particular piece of literature
What is authorial intent?
This term refers to a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is an allegory?
A literary work where the author reveals their own life experiences.
What is an autobiographical essay?
This literary device involves the use of language that typically belongs to a particular region or social group.
What is dialect?
A type of theme that is NOT directly stated; readers have to infer the author's meaning
What is an implicit theme?