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Literary Terms
ELA
27
English
9th Grade
12/13/2024

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exposition
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Setting (time and place)beginning characters beginning situation
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Inciting Incident
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Detail that gets the story moving in the direction its going to take
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rising Action
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Plot details leading to the climax
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Climax
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When the main character comes face to face with the central conflict and either resolves it successfully or not
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falling action
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Plot details from climax to resolution
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Resolution
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The Conclusion of the story Where loose ends are wrapped up
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Theme
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Central message of the story
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Antagonist
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Character or force that opposes Protagonist
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Protagonist
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Main Character
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Conflict
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The main problem of the story
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Foreshadowing
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Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later in the story
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Simile
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Comparison Between two things that uses like or as
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Metaphor
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Direct comparison that does not use like or as
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Personification
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Giving something non human human characteristics
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Setting
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What time and place the story takes place at
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oxymoron
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Where someone contradicts what they say with another word
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Foil
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A character that who is presented as a contrast to the second character so as to point some aspect of the second character
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pun
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A joke exploiting several different meanings
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aside
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when a character breaks away from the events of the story to talk to themselves
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Monologue
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A long speech by on character in a play or movie
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Soliloquy
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An act of speaking ones thoughts aloud
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Motif
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Reoccurring Pattern ,image ,Word, and Phrase
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Dramatic Irony
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When the audience knows something the characters don't
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Verbal irony
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When the literal meaning of what someone says is different or opposite of what they mean
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Situational irony
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When the opposite of what is expected happens
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Mood
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The overall feeling or atmosphere that the reader feels
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Tone
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Reflects the Writers attitude toward the subject matter in a literary work
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