1. Vocabulary List 2

2. 1. mood
overall mood or feeling of a work of literature (an adjective, like scary or nostalgic)
feeling created for the reader

3. 2. tone
The attitude a writer takes TOWARD his or her subject, characters, and audience
ex: humorous, sincere, etc.

4. 3. irony
a contrast between expectations and reality; three types

5. irony, continued
verbal irony (difference between what’s said and meant)
situational irony (what happens is diff. than what we expect)
dramatic irony (we know something a character does not)

6. 4. motivation
the reasons the character behaves in a certain way

7. 5. foreshadow
use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot

8. 6. flashback
interruption in the present action of the plot to show something that happened earlier

9. 7. fiction
made up
(fiction is “FALSE”)

10. 8. nonfiction writing that deals with real people, events, places
TRUE stories

11. 9. static character
does not change much over the course of the story

12. 10. dynamic character
changes as a result of the story’s events