Big Vocab Test Flashcards
Irony
🛑When the unexpected is happening
🛑(usually the exact opposite of what you think should happen)
Dramatic Irony
🛑When the reader know something that the characters do not
🛑Are usually found in a play or a movie
Situational irony
🛑A surprise ending
Verbal irony
🛑Saying one thing but meaning something different
🛑Sarcasm
Main character
🛑The person who the action is focused on
Static character
🛑One who does not go through any important internal changes
Dynamic character
🛑Character who goes through an important internal change
Protagonist or main character is dynamic
🛑true
Flat character
🛑Shows only one single personality trait and stays that way
Round character
🛑Show several sides to their personality
🛑complex like real people
Setting
🛑Time or place where the story takes place
Theme
🛑The central idea explored in any piece of writing
🛑EX// LOVE,COURAGE,LOYALTY
Universal themes
🛑good vs evil
Dialogue
🛑when people talk to eachother in a story
🛑used to move the story forward
Hyperbole
🛑extreme exaderation
Simile
🛑comparing 2 unlike things using like or as
Metaphore
🛑comparison of 2 unlike things not using like or as
Mood
🛑feeling the poem creates in the reader
Tone
🛑way the author protrays the story
🛑how the author feels
Allusions
🛑reference to someone or something commenly known
Foreshadowing
🛑advance hint in what comes later in the story
Alliteration
🛑SAME SOUND SENTENCES
Characterization
🛑The way the author developes the character
Plot
🛑Sequence of events that make up the content of the book or story
Fiction
🛑Story that is made up
Onomatopoeia
🛑using words for sounds
Fable
🛑animals are main characters
Exposition
🛑Part of the story that introduced the important background info
Rising action
🛑Part of the story that builds up to the climax
🛑conflict is developed
Climax
🛑turning point of the story
🛑Higest intensity or drama
Falling action
🛑after climax
🛑Conflict between protagonist and antagonist unravels
🛑Final moment of suspense
Resolution
🛑Ending of the story
Allegory
🛑A story that shows an idea or abstract thought using material forms
Internal conflict
🛑Problem within oneself
Prose
🛑Ordinary speech or writing
🛑Not poetry
🛑Does not have structure
X ternal conflict
🛑Conflict between a character and another character
Novel
🛑long work of fiction
Satire
🛑Sorry that pokes fun at or makes of a serious situation