The central character.
What is the protagonist?
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
Involves a situation in which the audience/reader has knowledge that the character is lacking.
What is dramatic irony?
Conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
A play on words; when an author uses a word with two diverse meanings or uses two very similar sounding words in a statement in order to play on both meanings of the word; puns can have serious as well as humorous uses.
What is a pun?
The antagonist in a story/text.
What is the adversary (opponent) of the central character?
The attitude/emotion of the narrator about a character, situation, conflict, etc.; conveyed through diction/description.
What is tone?
A reference to something outside of the text, which brings deeper understanding of character, theme, etc.
What is allusion?
The definition of soliloquy.
A lengthy speech performed by a character alone on the stage, speaking to him/herself, to reveal inner thoughts (conflict of conscience, motivation, etc.).
What is a hint of an upcoming event?
This character is a limited/undeveloped character with few traits.
What is a flat character?
Third person omniscient narration.
What is an all-knowing (conveys actions, words, thoughts/feelings of all/most characters) narrator?
What is a direct comparison of two unlike things (without using like, as, or than) for the same purpose?
All forms of written or spoken expression not having a regular rhythmic pattern.
What is prose?
A type of paradox in which a pair of opposite terms is combined into a single, unusual expression.
What is oxymoron?
What is a character who changes in response to the action of the narrative; this change is significant, internal, and lasting?
A preconceived attitude (positive or negative) developed by the narrator towards a particular character, situation, etc.
What is bias?
Giving human qualities nonhuman objects.
What is personification?
Two consecutive lines that rhyme.
What is a rhyming couplet?
A type of irony where a statement states one thing, but means/implies the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
A character, usually minor, designed to emphasize a particular trait of the protagonist through similarity and contrast.
What is a foil character?
The narrator has knowledge of the thoughts/feelings of only one or two characters.
What is third person limited omniscient narration?
When elements of the physical setting/nature (weather, etc.) are used to reflect the characteristics or the emotional state of a character.
What is pathetic fallacy?
The definition of iambic pentameter.
Verse written in lines of ten syllables, in which every line begins with an unstressed syllable, and follows the rhythm pattern “unstressed/stressed”.
The placement of characters, objects, images, scenes, etc. side by side for the purpose of comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?