Unit A: Short Stories

Type of Irony which utilizes speech to mean the opposite of what is said and what is meant.

This is an apparent contradiction or absurdity that is somewhat true

A comparison between unlike things without an explicit comparison (No like or as)

A play on words

The struggle between two opposing forces within a text

The overall feeling surrounding a literary work, often develop by setting

The implied attitude of the writer towards their subject

Man Vs. Nature

An intended exaggeration

It is the unified structure of incidents in a text

A reference within a literary work to another literary text, political or historical event etc.

Man Vs. Self

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity.

A literary work that criticizes human misconduct

Man Vs. Man

The character or force which oppose the protagonist

The perspective established by the narrator in a literary work

A conversation between two or more characters

When the creator provides hints of what is to come in the action of the text.

A form of language used in which the creator conveys something other than the literal meaning

The repeating of similar vowel sounds in close proximity

When an object, event or action is used to stand for something beyond itself

Type of where an event or action is expected, yet the opposite and unexpected happen.

An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.

When a character's attitude and personality is revealed through inferencing

The use of verbal irony in which a person appears to state praise yet is in insult

Language which describes an item in detail, using the sensory word choice.

When a character is develop through what is explicitly stated

This is the specific group a text is written for

This is the driving force behind a character's actions and behaviour

The excited anticipation of an approaching climax

The feeling(s) that the reader receives as they engage with a text.

The time place and circumstance of a text

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe

This is the author's word choice to develop their selection

The main character in a text

An interruption of a work's chronological movement to provide background information.

Type of irony where the audience knows information that the characters do not

The message that the author wishes to convey through a text. (Human condition)

Involves giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human traits

Man Vs. Society

A figurative of speech which compares to unalike things using like or as