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Lit and Drama Terms
Midterm review
27
English
9th Grade
12/16/2022

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Exposition
Definition
Setting (time and place), beginning characters, and beginning situation
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2. Inciting incident
Definition
Detail that gets the story moving in the direction it’s going to take (Jack and Beanstalk-when Jack trades the cow for the magic beans)
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3. Rising action
Definition
Plot details leading to the climax
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4. 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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5. Falling action
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Plot Details from the climax to the resolution
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6. Resolution
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The conclusion of the story where loose ends are wrapped up
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7. Theme
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The central message of the story
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8. Antagonist
Definition
Character or force opposite the protagonist
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9. Protagonist
Definition
Main character
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10. Conflict
Definition
The problem
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11. Foreshadowing
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Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later in the story
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12. Simile
Definition
Comparison between two things that uses like or as
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13. Metaphor
Definition
Direct comparison that doesn’t use like or as
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14. Personification
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Giving something nonhuman, human characteristics
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15. Setting
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The time and place of a story
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16. Oxymoron
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a self-contradicting word or group of words
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17. Foil
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A character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to some aspect of the second character
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18. Pun
Definition
a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.”
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19. Aside
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is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character.
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20. Monologue
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a long speech by one person addressed to other characters
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21. Soliloquy
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a long speech in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage
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22. Motif
Definition
Recurring pattern, image, word, phrase
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23. Dramatic irony
Definition
When the audience or reader knows something the characters don’t know.
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24. Verbal irony
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When the opposite of what is expected actually happens
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25. Situational irony
Definition
Occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from or opposite of what they actually meant
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26. Mood
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The overall feeling or atmosphere that the reader feels.
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Tone
Definition
Reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter in a literary work.
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