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**Conflict: ** conflict is struggle between two opposing forces  -conflict occurs when a character wants something but there is an obstacle standing in the way that the main character must overcome **Character v. character: **  -protagonist v. antagonist  -most common; can be arguments, different desires, opposing goals, physical **Character v. self: **  -internal struggle  -moral dilemmas, emotional challenges, unsavory desires  -may be conflict with characters own soul or conscience **Character v. nature: **  -character v. forces of nature that is out of the character’s control  -can be form of character v. disease **Character v. society: **  -character is not targeted by a sole person, but by a group of people  -character v. government, cultural/social ideas or beliefs **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Appositive: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -can be shot or a long combination of words **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Sensory images: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> words that help a reader to imagine experiencing a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Conjunction: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a word that connects two words, sentences, phrases, or clauses together **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Observation: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> something that you can see, notice, or perceive **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Inference: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">a deduction or conclusion that is drawn based on an observation, a logical guess based on what you see **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Theme: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> an insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -rarely stated directly in literature; you must infer it  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -not a subject; theme is the statement the writer wants to make about that subject **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Moral: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> lesson **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Homophones: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> There, their and they’re <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -there: location- There is the house. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -their: possession- That is their house. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -they’re: they are- They’re happy people. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Motivation: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> desire to do something <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -overt: out in the open, known <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -covert: secretive **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Irony: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a difference between expectations and reality <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Verbal irony: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> saying one thing but meaning another; sarcasm- not lying; you generally see sarcasm used to mock someone or something <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Situational irony: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> when an event occurs that is not expected to happen <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Dramatic irony: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> when the reader knows something that the characters within the work do not **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Catharsis: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> when one releases repressed emotions; a healthy purging or release of emotion **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Epiphany: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> sudden realization or comprehension of something; revelation; “having the last puzzle piece and now seeing the whole picture” **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Allegory: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events standing for other people, events, abstract ideas or qualities **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Coming of age” novel: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -usually deals with the loss of innocence <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -Example: shift of ignorance to one of knowledge **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Reliable narrator: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> this person serves as our filter for the events of the plot. They may not know everything, but this person is truthful and knowledge able to enough to guide us toward a reasonable understanding **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Unreliable narrator: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> has some sort of flaw: this skews how they interpret events around them <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -common flaws: a young age, low intelligence, prejudices about other types of people, hallucinations, dementia, personality flaw (such as lying or narcissim) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Allusion: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> reference to someone or something that is know from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Paradox: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -do not go near the water if you cannot swim **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Symbol: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Motif: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> a reoccurring symbol or element (event, reference, etc.) that has significance in a work of literature- often has something to add to or reveal about a theme of work **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Conformity: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> going with the flow- conforming with society **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Oxymoron: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -**Example:** sweet sorrow, jumbo shrimp, deafening silence, bitter sweet, living dead **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Synesthesia: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> the juxtaposition (placement of two contradictionary things next to each other) of one sensory image with another image that appeals to an unrelated sense <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -the linking of two senses together <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> -**Example:** sweet laughter (taste+hearing), golden touch (sight+touch), sour music (taste+hearing) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Simile: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> comparison using “like” or “as” **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Metaphor: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> comparison- he’s a monster **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Hyperbole: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> obvious exaggeration made to prove or show a point **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Personification: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> giving inanimate objects human-like features **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Mood: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> the feeling in the reader after/while reading a work **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Tone: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> author’s attitude towards the subject
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lexicon Words **