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A plot is the main event of a play, novel, or similar work, devised by the writer. Climax is the most intense, exiting, and satisfying part of a story. A character is a character with a distinctive nature or features.
A plot is the main event of a play, novel, or similar work, devised by the writer. Climax is the most intense, exiting, and satisfying part of a story. A character is a character with a distinctive nature or features.
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A plot is the main event of a play, novel, or similar work, devised by the writer. Climax is the most intense, exiting, and satisfying part of a story. A character is a character with a distinctive nature or features.
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Plot The main event of a play, novel, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. Example- The plot to the play was very captivating. Setting The time and place at which an event in a play, book, film takes place. Example-the setting was at a cold lonely house in Wisconsin. Point-of-view A particular attitude or way of considering a matter. Example-The point of view for the story was in third person omniscient. Characterization Describing the distinctive nature or features of something. Example-The Grinch’s character is a stingy beast with a heart three sizes to small. Theme Is the subject of writing or talking; a person’s thoughts about an exhibition. Example-The theme of the book was honesty. Alliteration The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Example-An example is the Mother Goose
tongue twister, "Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers.” Allusion An expression designed to call something to mind mentioning it explicitly. Example-An image you see the is distorted when you look at it. Analogy A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of the explanation or clarification. Example- he analogy between the heart and a pump. Antagonist A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something. Example-The devil is the antagonist of the Bible. Aside On one side; out of the way; putting something aside of a play that necessarily doesn’t need to be heard. Example- Charles spoke aside to the audience about his afflictions with James in the play. Blank verse Is a verse without rhyme or specific style in a verse or poem. Example- You stars that reign'd at my nativity,Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mistInto entrails of yon labouring clouds,That when they vomit forth into the air,My limbs may issue from their smoky mouths,Sothat my soul may but ascend to Heaven. Climax The most intense, exiting, or important point of poem, book, play, move, or story. Example-The climax of Avatar is when they blew up the TREE. Comic relief Comic relief is a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections. Example- William Shakespeare uses comic relief in Romeo and Juliet. Conflict An incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests. Example- The conflict of Avatar was that both the humans and the blue people wanted the precious metals on this piece of land so they fought over it. Couplet Two lines verses, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that forms a unit. Example- true wit is nature to advantage dress'd;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Diction The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. Example-good diction. Dramatic Irony The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous effect. Example-When a man tries to leave a war, but he ends up dying. Dramatic Structure Is the basis of the drama in the literary piece. Example- Most all movies, plays and books have a dramtic structure…exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. Epithet An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. Example-"wine-dark sea," Figurative Language a metaphorical language that is used to describe what you are talking about. Example- Cindy liked to eat because she was a mule. Foreshadowing A warning or indication of a future event that my occur. Example- Joseff had a dream sent from an Angel that Herod would come to try to kill Jesus Foil To prevent a plan or process from succeeding. Example- Jesus is the foil to Satan. Imagery Visual descriptive or figurative language. Example- he dim imagery of a dream Irony The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite effect. Example-In the departed in the end the good guy or foil gets shot and dies irony. Meter Prosody in nouns denoting lines of poetry with a specified number of feet or measures. Example- Is like the beat of the song. The more foot the more meters. Metahpor A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Example- Saying that you were a wall and bounced a ball back over the net. Monologue A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. Example-In a movie were the character does a speech explaining the scene. Oxymoron A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Example- A fine mess Personification The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman. Example-An example is of Garfield a talking cat. Protagonist The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. Example- An example is the main character, Will Smith, in Hancock. Pun A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. Example- The man who impulsively got a cat despite his allergies later realized that it was a rash decision. Website: http://www.punoftheday.com/cgi- bin/disppuns.pl? ord=N&cat=0&sub=0&page=1 Rhyme Scheme The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of a poem or verse. Example- There once was a big brown cat a That liked to eat a lot of mice. b He got all round and fat a Because they tasted so nice. b http://www.rbuhsd.k12.ca.us/~rgrow/Rhyme %20Schemes.html Simile A figure of speech involving the comparison of on thing with another thing of a different kind. Situational Irony A situation, which brings upon irony. Example- When a man’s family thinks that he going to work, but instead he goes to the beach. Soliloquy An act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself. Example- When your sitting at home and you burst laughing after thinking of something funny. Sonnet A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. Example- Symbol A thing that represents a certain object. Example- In certain places a statue can represent a god. Tragedy An event causing great suffering, distress, or destruction. Example- When when a man dies and leaves his children alone. Verbal Irony Irony caused by verbal conversation. Example- ".... If you ask for me tomorrow, you shall find me a grave man. ... ”Romeo and Juliet.