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