Character
Context
Diction
Figurative Language!!!!!
100
Persons—or animals or natural forces represented as persons—in a work of literature. Characters may be static (stay the same) or dynamic (undergo a change in personality or attitude) and flat (merely sketched out often stereotypical or stock) or round (more fully developed).
character
100
The time and the place in which the action of a book, film, play, and so on happens. Setting may also include mood and atmosphere.
Setting
100
Apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice.
Use
100
the attribution of human feelings, emotions, or sensations to an inanimate object
Personification
200
the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story
protagonist
200
Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure. To identify parts and relationships, and interpret information to reach conclusions.
Analyse
200
The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. The term dialect encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially. Dialect is a major technique of characterization that reveals the social or geographic status of a character.
Dialect
200
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; uses the words 'like' or 'as' in this comparison
Simile
300
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or hero/heroine of a story
Antagonist
300
expressing an unpleasant or unsavory idea in a less blunt and more pleasant way
Euphemism
300
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
Metaphor
400
The methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature, both direct and indirect.
What is Characterization?, and what are the two types?
400
a phrase, idea, or image that has been used so much that it has lost much of its original meaning, impact, and freshness
Cliché
400
like images, these represent something else
Symbol
500
A character (or a place or an event) that is used to contrast with another character (or place or event).
Foil
500
an implication or association attached to a word or phrase
Connotation
500
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
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