English Comprehension Terms

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Theme
Recurrent Idea
Foreshadowing
Providing clues about the events that may happen later in the sotry
Flashback
Presenting something that helps explain something about the current situation
Tone
Writers attitude toward subject, audience, and self
Atomosphere
Overall feeling created from the tone and mood
Mood
Feelings created in the reader by the text
Resolution
Conclusion of the story in which the problem or conflict is solved
Climax
Highest point of emotional intensity, usually the turning point
Contrast
Consideration of two or more things with respect to difference
Irony
Literal device that is used to achieve a meaning opposite to what is actually being said
Tension
Interplay of conflicting elements in a piece of literature
Plot
Storyling or series of events
Setting
The time, place and circumstances in which a text takes place
Satire
Use of irony to ridicule an idea, person or thing
Dialogue
Any conversation between characters or people