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Literary, Drama and Poetry Definitions
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9th Grade
03/14/2023

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Exposition
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Beginning of the story, beginning characters, the setting is introduced, and the beginning situation.
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Inciting Incident
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A detail that gets the story moving
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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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The main character (protagonist) comes face to face with the central conflict of the story, either defeating it or not.
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Falling Action
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Plot details from the climax to the 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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the main message or the point that the story and the author is trying to get across. The central message of the story.
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Atangonist
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the central villain or plot point going opposite the main character (protagonist)
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Protangonist
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The main character of the story
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Conflict
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A character wants something but something gets in the way. Man V Man, Man Vs. Nature, Man Vs. Society, Man Vs. Self, ETC
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foreshadowing
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Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later on in the story.
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Simile
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Comparison between two things using 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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Personifiction
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giving something non-human, human characteristics
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setting
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the time and place in which a story is told
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oxymoron
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a self-contradicting word or group of words
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foil
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a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.
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Pun
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A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.
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aside
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An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. ... An aside is usually a brief comment, rather than a speech,
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Monologue
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Monologue is an long speech by one person addressed to other characters
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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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Motif
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A recurring pattern, thing, image, word, in a story
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Dramatic Irony
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when the audience or reader knows something that the characters don't
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Verbal Irony
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When the literal meaning is different than what they said
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situational Irony
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when the opposite of what happens actually happens
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mood
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overall feeling of the book
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tone
Definition
writer's attitude
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