Terms 33-54

Question 1

tone

Answer 1

reflects how the author feels about the subject matter or the feeling the author wants to instill in the reader yes

Question 2

antagonist

Answer 2

the protagonists adversary

Question 3

colloquial language

Answer 3

informal, conversational language

Question 4

epiphany

Answer 4

sudden enlightenment or realization, a profound new outlook or understanding about the world usually attained while doing everyday mundane activities

Question 5

flashback

Answer 5

when a character remembers a past event that is relevant to the current action of the story

Question 6

flat character

Answer 6

a literary character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change over the course of the story

Question 7

foreshadowing

Answer 7

clues in the text about incidents that will occur later in the plot, creates anticipation in the novel

Question 8

denouement

Answer 8

final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot

Question 9

metonymy

Answer 9

use of a word or phrase to stand in for something else which it is often associated i.e lamb means Jesus

Question 10

prose

Answer 10

ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form

Question 11

protagonist

Answer 11

the main character in a drama or literary work

Question 12

aesthetic

Answer 12

theory or set of principals governing the idea of beauty at a given time or place

Question 13

antithesis

Answer 13

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

Question 14

diction

Answer 14

word choice or the use of words in speech or writing

Question 15

ethos

Answer 15

an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader

Question 16

litotes

Answer 16

ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g you won’t be sorry, meaning you’ll be glad)

Question 17

logos

Answer 17

an appeal to logic, and it is a way of persuading an audience by reason

Question 18

mood

Answer 18

an atmosphere created by a writer’s diction and the details selected

Question 19

non-sequitur

Answer 19

statement not logically following previous arguments or statements

Question 20

novella

Answer 20

a short novel usually under 100 pages

Question 21

pathos

Answer 21

an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response

Question 22

ambiguity

Answer 22

when an author leaves out details/information or is unclear about an event, so the reader will use their imagination to fill in the blanks