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A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality, or between what is expected and what actually happens. What are the three types?
- Irony.
- 1) Dramatic irony- audience knows something the characters don't.
- 2) Verbal irony- when you say onething and it can be taken two ways.
- 3) Situation irony- when the expected outcome does not happen but the opposite does.
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The placement of two or more distinct elements side by side in order to contrast or comare them.
Juxtaposition
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A traditional story handed down from past generations and believed to be based on real people and events.
Legend
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The use of specific details to recreate the language, customs, geography, and habits of a particular area.
Local Color
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A type of nonfiction narrative that represents an author's personal experience of an event or a period in the writer's life.
Memoir
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Comparing two seemingly different things without using like or as.
Metaphor
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A long speech or written expression of thoughts by a character in a literary work.
Monologue
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A signifigant word, phrase, image, description, idea, or other element that is repeated throughout a lterary work.
Motif
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The emotional quality of a literary work.
Mood
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A traditional sory that deals with goddesses, gods, heros, and supernatural forces. Natural phenomena.
Myth
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The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
Onematopoeia
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Putting together in a phrase two opposite ideas.
Oxymoron
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Repeating grammatical structure.
Parallelism
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Giving human qualities to imanimate objects or animals.
Personification
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The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language of another author and the representation of them as one's original work.
Plagiarism
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The sequence of events in a literary work.
Plot
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First person, third person limited, third person omnicient.
Point Of View
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The central character in a literary work, around whom the main conflict involves.
Protagonist
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The theory or practice of emphasizing the regional characteristics of locale or setting, as by stressing local speech.
Regionalism
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