Key Terms 1-4 Review

Understatement or statement of a negative to establish a positive. Ex: Not bad! = Good!

Tragic hero's reversal of fortune

A fully developed, complex character

A speech delivered by one character to others or directly to the audience (if alone).

The opposite of what is expected or intended occurs

A brooding, cynical type of anti-hero

The relationship between the narrator and the story is called

An artificial or unlikely plot development that breaks suspension of disbelief and seems forced

Her voice raw with emotion, Rose confronts Troy.

A character who remains the same

A clue or sub-plot intended to distract the reader and keep plot developments surprising

Repetition at the beginning of sentences.

A larger story that sets the context for the main story

A story narrated as a series of shorter vignettes or incidents

An introductory section of a book, written by the author, and forming part of the text.

Not a fully developed character - one dimensional

A speech delivered by a character to him or her self, regardless of others present

The Greek term for tragic flaw or error in judgment of a tragic hero

Abusively insulting language

Interruption in the syntax, often because the speaker is changing the subject.

Ending does not quite meet the expectation of the buildup

A character who changes through the course of the story

Repeated use of conjunctions in close succession for effect

A lapse from the lofty or sublime into the ridiculous

Speaking directly to an abstract concept or absent character. Ex: Troy talking to Death.

A novel focused on the coming-of-age of the protagonist

A work that makes light of serious, sad, or taboo topics

A novel written as a series of letters or documents

The even arrangement of grammatical elements in a sentence

When the audience knows something that the characters do not know