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First-Person Narration

A narrative style where the story is told from the perspective of a character using “I” or “we".” This perspective allows readers to experience the thoughts and feeling of the narrator directly

Second-Person Narration

A narrative style where the narrator directly addresses the reader using “you,” making the reader the main character and pulling them into the story

Third-Person Narration

A narrative style where the story is told from an outside perspective, using “he,” “she,” or “they.” This perspective can be either limited to one character’s thoughts or omniscient, revealing the thoughts of multiple characters

Direct Characterization

When an author explicitly tells the reader about a character’s traits, such as their personality, appearance, or background, using descriptive adjectives and direct statements, offering clear, unambiguos details unambiguous

Indirect Charecterization

Reveals a character’s personality and traits through their actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how others read to them, rather than the author directly stating these qualities

Major Charecter

Characters who play a significant role in the story’s developement

Minor Characters

Characters who have minimal or no impact on the development of the plot

Protagonist

The main character who drives the plot forward

Antagonist

The character or force who opposes the protagonist

Round Character

Fully developed, with many traits and complexities

Flat Character

One dimensional, lack depth

Static Character

Remain the same throughout the whole story

Dynamic Character

Undergo significant internal changes or growth

Foil Character

Traits contrast with those of the protagonist, highlighting certain qualities

Symbolic Character

Characters who represent abstract ideas or concepts

Meter

A repeating rhythmic pattern in a poem

Rhythm

The musical beat or flow created by the patterned recurrence of stressed (long) and unstressed (short) syllables

Figurative Language

Language that goes beyond the literal meaning to get a message or point across

Ballad

A narrative, rhythmic verse that may be sung

Free Verse

Poetic verse without regular meter or rhythm

Mood

The overall feeling of text, usually created by the author’s use of figurative language and imagery

Tone

The speaker’s attitude toward the subject

Diction

Choice of words

Form

A method of arrangement in a poem

Rhyme Scheme

A repeated pattern of shared sounds among words at the ends of poetic lines

Sonnet

a poem of fourteen lines using any number of rhyme schemes written in iambic pentameter

Italian Sonnet

A 14 line poem divided into an eight line octave that presents a problem or questions, and a six line setset

English Sonnet

three quatrains and nine line couplet

Iamb

A unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Metaphor

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things

Simile

A comparison between two unlike things, usually with words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Personification

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or abstract idea

Hyperbole

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point

Onomatopoeia

The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer

Oxymoron

When incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side

Paradox

A seemingly contradictory statement which actually makes sense or contains some truth

Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds

Anaphora

The repetiton of a word or phase at the beginning of a successive clause

Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part

Alleteration

The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Allusion

A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance

Analogy

A comparison between two things in order to highlight a point of similarity. It is different to a metaphor or simile, in that it expresses a set of like relationships between two sets of terms

Pun

A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense of sounds of different words

Consonance

The repetition of constant vowels in the same line

Slant Rhyme

A rhyming scheme with words that sound similar but not exactly the same

Enjambment

A thought in a verse that doesn’t come to an end at the line break but instead rolls over to the next line

Monologue

a prolonged, uninterrupted speech by one person

Soliloquy

a speech in a play where a chartecher is alone on stage (or thinks they are) and speaks their innermost thoughts and feelings aloud

Dramatic Irony

a storytelling device where the audience or reader knows crucial information that the charecters do not

Biography

a true story of a person’s life written by someone else

Autobiography

A true story of a person’s life written by that person

Memoir

A true story of a specific moment/ themes/ era in a person’s life written by that person

Autobiographical Narrative

A true story in short form of a person’s life written by that person in a narrative format