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An opponent or enemy. A secondary character who contrasts with the main character and, in so doing, highlights various elements of the main character's personality.
What is antagonist?
100
An opponent or enemy. An Antagonist. A secondary character who contrasts with the main character and, in so doing, highlights various elements of the main character's personality.
What is character foil?
100
To determine the characteristics of.
What is characterize?
100
A noun or adjective used to describe the behavior or personality feature of a character (e.g., careless, dull, loyal, rude). Characterization.
What is character trait?
100
That which causes a character to behave in various ways under various circumstances.
What is character motivation?
200
A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic or context of words or phrases.
What is connotation?
200
a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative
What is flashback?
200
A literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The primary, literal or explicit meaning of a word, phrase or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
What is denotation?
200
A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat.
What is homophone?
300
Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
What is hyperbole?
300
A phrase that means something different from the literal meaning of the words in the phrase (e.g., raining cats and dogs)
What is idiom?
300
Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for the reader.
What is imagery?
300
The quality or state of an event being both coincidental and contradictory in a humorous or poignant and extremely improbable way.
What is irony?
300
A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
What is oxymoron?
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A character says one thing but really means something different.
What is verbal irony?
400
This occurs when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.
What is situational irony?
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This occurs when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.
What is dramatic irony?
400
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared with another, sometimes in an unusual way (e.g., I am a bear in the morning). The comparative words like or as are not used in a metaphor.
What is metaphor?
400
Refers to the pronunciation of a word that imitates the sound associated with its object or action (e.g., hiss or buzz).
What is onomatopoeia?
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The opposite of hyperbole, it refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended and usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes may be used for comic purposes (e.g., A little bedtime snack – to describe a seven-course meal).
What is understatement?
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The opposite of hyperbole, it refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended and usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes may be used for comic purposes (e.g., A little bedtime snack – to describe a seven-course meal).
What is verse?
500
ellipsis. A series of dots that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted, and though necessary for syntactical construction, is not necessary for comprehension.
What is . . .? (series of three dots)
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A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, nowadays a single character “…” (used in printing to indicate an omission).
What is ellipsis?
500
An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
What is episode?