Vocabulary midterm review

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• Foreshadowing

• allusion

protagonist

• The leading character

• Indirect/ passing reference

• the Villain

• The subject

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation

• mood

• anatgonist

• tone

• plot

the chain of connected events that make up a narrative

• Allusion

• Setting

• Resolution

• Plot

a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Mood

• dialogue

figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid ( using like or as)

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

words or expressions that mean something different from their literal definition, and does not use like or as

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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• Resolution

• Rising action

• exposition

• Climax