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

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Exposition
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Setting (time and place). Beginning characters and beginning situation
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Inciting Incident
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The 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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Rising Action
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Plot details leading to the climax
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Climax
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When the main character comes face to face with the central conflict and either resolves it successfully or not (R&J; when Romeo kills Tybalt because the Capulets at that point will never accept him)
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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 central message of the story
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Antagonist
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Character or force opposite the protagonist
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Protagonist
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Main character
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Conflict
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Man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs fate
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Foreshadowing
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Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later in the story
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Smilie
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Comparison between two things that use like of as
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Metaphor
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The direct comparison that doesn't use like or as
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Personification
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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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Setting
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Time and place
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Oxymoron
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Oxymoron is a figure of speech pairing two works together that are opposing and/or contradictory. This combination of contrary or antithetical words is also known in conversion as a contradiction in terms.
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Foil
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Charachter who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to some aspect of the second character (Ambush; Kiowa was a foil to the narrator/R&J; Paris is a foil to Romeo
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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 word with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.
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Aside
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An aside is a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to himself while other actors on the stage appear not to hear. Only the audience knows that the character has said something to them.
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Monologue
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Dramatic monologue means self-conversion, speech, or, talks which include an interlocutor presented dramatically. It means a person, who is speaking to himself or someone else speaks to reveal specific intentions of his action.
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Soliliqy
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A soliloquy is a literary device in the form of a speech or monologue spoken by a single character in a theatrical play or drama. The purpose of a soliloquy is for the character to express their inner thoughts and feelings that are not intended to be heard or known by other characters in the play or the guidance members.
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Motif
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Recurring pattern, image, word, phrase (Ibis-death and red/R&J light and dark.)
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Dramatic Irony
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When the audience or reader knows something the characters don't know. (For example; the audience knows Juliet is in a coma and not dead but the characters on stage don't.)
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Verbal Irony
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Occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different or opposite of what they actually meant (Examples; when there's a hurricane and someone remarks “what lovely weather we're having.”/Lord Capulet calls the nurse “Lady Wisdom” and a few lines later he calls her a mumbling fool.)
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Situational Irony
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When the opposite of what is expected actually happens (man saves money all his life so he can travel the world when he retires and the day he retires he dies./ Romeo goes to the party to see Rosaline and believes that no one could be more beautiful than she is. Then he sees Juliet and Rosaline become a crow because he thinks Juliet is more beautiful.)
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Mood
Definition
The overall feeling or atmosphere the reader feels
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Tone
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Reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter in a literary work.
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