a character who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary
What is an antagonist?
a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.
What is a couplet?
Quote vs. detail
What is the difference in types of evidence between FRQ 1 and FRQ 3?
the narrator's outlook or view on the story's events, characters, and the world
What is perspective?
be a warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
characters in a story that are not as important as the major characters, but still play a large part in the story
What are minor characters?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
addresses
What is the analysis verb that represents the writer's process in an apostrophe?
the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story
What is first person point of view?
the tone or mood in a piece of writing is changed in order to define characters or make a novel or poem more interesting, engaging, and effective
What is a shift?
the description of a character's physical traits (how a character looks), point of view, personality, private thoughts, and actions.
What is characterization?
a comparison between two unlike things that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
What is an extended metaphor?
compare
What is the analysis verb that represents the writer's process in a simile?
the attempt to indicate on the printed page, through spellings and misspellings, ellipses, apostrophes, syntactical shifts, signals, etc., the speech of an ethnic, regional or racial group
What is dialect?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is plot?
a character that doesn't change throughout the telling of the story
What is a static character?
refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object
What is apostrophe?
This refers to intricate structures, relationships, or ideas within a literary work that challenge simple explanations. It involves multiple interconnected elements that require careful analysis.
What is complexity?
works of fiction that are written in the form of letters or other documents. Frankenstein is an example of this.
What is an epistolary novel?
the moment when a character is suddenly struck with a life-changing realization
What is epiphany?
a struggle within a person's mind over a problem or question
What is internal conflict?
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is parody?
humanizes
What is the analysis verb that represents the process the author uses with personification.
What is a comedy of manners?
In a longer work of fiction (novel, play, or epic poem) this serves as the shift.
What is climax?