The struggle between oppossing forces in a story or play.
What is conflict?
100
the sequence of events in a narrative work.
What is plot?
100
when a person says one thing but means another.
What is verbal irony?
100
a figure of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common. Does not use like or as.
What is metaphor?
200
a smaller division of an ACT
What is a scene?
200
a humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different wordse with the same sound.
What is pun?
200
the feeling or atmosphere that the author creates in a literary work.
What is mood?
200
An authors use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot. It also helps build suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
200
In a play a comment made by a character that is heard by the audience or another character but is not heard by the other characters on stage. It is used to reveal the private thoughts of a character.
What is an aside?
300
a figure of speech in which great exageration is used for emphasis or humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
300
the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected.
What is situational irony?
300
A reference in a work of literature to a character, place or situation from another work of literature, music or art from history.
What is Allusion
300
The "word pictures" that writers use to help evoke an emotional response in readers.
What is imagery?
300
a character struggles against some outside force such as another character, nature, society, or fate.
What is external conflict?
400
The cetral character in a literary work in which the conflict revolves around.
What is protagonist?
400
a short funny episode that interrupts an otherwise serious or tracgic work of drama to relieve tension in the play.
What is comic relief?
400
Language used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly. Mostly used in poetry but can appear in all types of literary works.
What is figurative language?
400
a contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
400
exists within the mind of a character who is torn between different courses of action.
What is internal conflict?
500
a character that provides a strong contrast to another character. It does not always have to be the bad guy.
What is foil?
500
a figure of speech where an animal, inanimate object, force of nature, or idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
a story to be written to be performed in front of an audience.
What is drama?
500
a figure of speech that combines of seemingly contradictory words.
What is oxymoron? plus example
500
exists when the reader knows something the character does not know.