english terms 0963
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| Central Conflict | is the main problem or struggle in the plot of a poem, story, or play.
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| Irony | is the difference between appearance and reality.
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| Inciting Incident | is the event that tntroduces the central conflict, or struggle, in a peom
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| Motive | is a reason for acting a certain way.
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| Simile | is a comparison using like or as.
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| Myth | is a story that explains something the beginnings of things in the natural world.
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| Characterization | is the act creating a character.
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| Setting | of a literary is a time and place in which happens.
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| Folk Tale | is a story passed by word of mouth frpm generation to generation.
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| Personification | is a figure of speech in which something not described asif it were human.
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| Oral Tradition | is a work, idea, or custom passed by word of mouth from generation to generation.
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| Motif | is any thing that appears repeatedly in one more works of literature
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| Fable and Myth | is a breif story with animal characters and moral.
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| Legened | is a story based on important real events of characters, often from distant past.
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| Subpolt | is reference in a literary work to something famous.
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| Aim | is his or her purpose, or goal.
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| Apostrohe | is a poem that addresses an object or person directly.
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| Metaphor | is the figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another.
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| Parallelism | is the expression of similar ideas in a similar way.
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| Conflict | is a struggle between two people or things in a literar work.
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| Theme | is a central idea in a literary work.
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| Autobiography | is a story of a person's life, written by that person.
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| Science Fiction | is imaginative based on scientific principles, discoveries, or laws.
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| Image | is an language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled.
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| Speaker | is the voice that speaks, or narrates, a peom
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| Allegory | is literary work in which somehting not human is described as if it were human.
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| Personification | a figure of speech in which something not human is described as if it were human
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| Exposition | is a part of a plot that introduces the setting and the major characters.
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| Irony of Situation | an event that contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience of literary work.
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| Tone | is the writter speakers attitude toward the subject.
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| Understatement | is a statment that treats something inportant as though it were not inportant.
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