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Glossary Terms 4

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 * ** Literary Term  ** || **  Definition   ** || **  Example  ** ||
 * Death Myth ||  Ancient mythology of the afterlife. It's different for different parts of the world.  ||  Hades, River Styx  ||
 * Denotation ||  The direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression.  ||  The ** denotation ** of the word // home // is "a place where someone lives"   ||
 * Dramatic Irony ||  When the words and actions of the characters of the work of literature have a different meaning for the reader then they do the characters.  ||  The Scarlet Letter – the reader knows Hester and Dimmesdale are partners in sin, but the characters do not.  ||
 * Prologue ||  An introduction or preface of a piece of literature.  ||  Explanation of the characters and their lives.  ||
 * Protagonist ||  The main character in a drama or literary work; the good guy.  ||  In to Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is the protagonist.
 * Pun ||  A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.  ||  “Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used his wars alarms; but a cannonball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms”  ||