Literary Terminology

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Literary Terminology 6

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Sarcasm
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• Sarcasm What is it?
• Examples
• "How unselfish you are!" said the girl as her
  brother took the biggest piece of cake.
• Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he
  ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
• Answer The act of making fun of a person to hurt
  her or his feelings harsh or bitter irony. A
  sneering or cutting remark ironical taunt.

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Science fiction
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Script

• The text of a play, motion picture, or broadcast

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Setting a Purpose

• The process of establishing specific reasons to
  read a literary work

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Structure

• The way in which literature is put together

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Sequence

• The order in which events occur or in which ideas
  are presented

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Scene

• A section presenting events that occur in one
  place at a time

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Rhythm

• The pattern or flow of sound created by the
  arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
  in a line of poetry.

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Speaker

• The voice that talks to the reader

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Stanza

• A group of lines within a poem

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Skimming

• The process or reading quickly to identify the
  main idea of a work or passage.

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Speech

• A prepared talk given in public

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Stage directions

• The instructions to the actors, director, and
  stage crew

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Scenery

• The painted backdrop or other structures used to
  create the setting for a play.

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Simile

• A comparison of two things that have the same
  quality in common

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Short story

• A brief work of fiction that can usually be read
  in a single setting

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Stage

• The level and raised platform on which
  entertainers usually perform

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Story Map

• A visual organizer that helps a reader understand
  a work of literature

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Stereotype

• A generalization about a group of people, in
  which individual differences are disregarded

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