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LITERARY MIX
100
The person telling the story.
Narrator
100
"Long, lovely locks" is an example of this.
Alliteration
100
"As big as a house" is an example of this.
Simile
100
The time, place, and mood of a work of literature.
Setting
100
A person (in the literature) who is responsible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature.
Character
200
The forces arrayed against the main character (persons, things, conventions of society, or traits of the protagonist's own character).
Antagonist
200
"I'm so tired I could sleep for a year" is an example of this.
Hyperbole
200
"BOOM" "CRASH" is an example of this.
onomatopoeia
200
A false climax in which expectations are raised and then let down
Anti-Climax
200
a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms
Oxymoron
300
Fortinbras is this for Hamlet
Character Foil
300
two lines of verse (in a poem), usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
Couplet
300
unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length, especially iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
300
Author tells the story in third person, but from the viewpoint of a single character. The thoughts and feelings of other characters are not shown.
Limited-Omniscient Point of view
300
The mood the reader gets from the setting, the characterization and the tone of the narrator.
Atmosphere
400
A character who does not change throughout a work; the reader's knowledge of the character also does not grow.
Static Character
400
a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
An Epic poem
400
language that appeals to the 5 senses
Imagery
400
A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
Exposition
400
A description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others for comic reasons.
Caricature
500
An extended narrative, which carries a second meaning along with its surface story; the people and events are symbolic.
Allegory
500
the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next
Enjambment
500
Directly addressing a person, animal, thing, or idea that cannot speak back
Apostrophe
500
The audience knowing that Polonius is behind the curtain while Hamlet does not know, is an example of what?
Dramatic Irony
500
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
Antitheses