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| the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the begining of adjacent or closely connected words |
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| an expression designed to call somthing to mind without mentioning it explicity;an indirect or passing reference |
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| A character who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or somthing |
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| A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play |
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| the pervading tone or mood of a place, situation |
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| the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting. |
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| a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. |
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| prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. |
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| the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. |
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| Chronological order[image] |
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| Arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Timeline or sequence of events. |
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| A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. |
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| the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. |
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(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. Familiar, everday.
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| Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. |
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| Estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between. |
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| Conflict: Internal/External[image] |
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| Disagreement or argument. Unsettling inner/outter conflict. |
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The associated or secondary meaning of a word orexpression
in addition to its explicit or primary
meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, family, Comfort."
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| The state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association. |
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The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
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A spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.
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| conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
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Direct presentation
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| Direct presentation is the most mimetic narrative mode, since it gives an almost complete illusion of direct, i.e. unmediated, representation: in other words, two or more people talking or presenting directly to each other. |
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An exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.
Could also be a play, or movie type. |
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Dynamic character
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| Character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude |
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| Exposition; expository[image] |
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| A statement or type of composition intended to give information about or an explanation of an issue, subject, method, or idea. |
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| The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution) |
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Figurative Language
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| expressing ideas indirectly; language used in a special way to create a special effect made up of words and phrases which don’t mean what they first appear to mean |
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First person point of view
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| Narration from the perspective of "I" or "We." Narrators may be involved with the action or may simply observe it; they may also be reliable or unreliable. |
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| A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. |
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| A flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. "static characters, two dimensional characters." |
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| Prevent something considered wrong or undesirable from succeeding. |
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| Be a warning or indication of a future event. |
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| Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. |
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A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
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| Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. |
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| A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art. |
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| Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work. |
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Indirect presentation
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| Action or event that can be seen as knowledge. A way by which an author's character in a story is described through his actions. The personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says thus the reader must infer what the character is like. |
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| The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
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| special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. |
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Limited Omniscient Point Of View
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All-knowing narrator about one or two characters, but not all. |
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expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms
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A direct comparison!
a word or phrase is applied to an object or action |
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| a temporary state of mind or feeling. |
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the action or process of narrating a story
commentary delivered to accompany a movie, broadcast, etc |
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a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
in the form of or concerned with narration |
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Objective Point Of View
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| The narrator assumes the position of an observer, detached from the narrative |
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Omniscient point of view
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omniscient is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
(third person) |
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| the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo,sizzle ) |
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| a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g.,faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ) |
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A paradox is a statement or concept that contains conflicting ideas. In logic, aparadox is a statement that contradicts itself
"HE IS A DUMB GENIUS." |
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| the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
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Persuasion; persuasive
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| persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation. |
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the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
(devise the sequence of events) |
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| a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. |
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| information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
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| the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. |
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stop oneself from doing something.
"she refrained from comment" |
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the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter.
"the peaceful resolution of all disputes" |
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| correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
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| the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. |
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