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Comp & Lit Terms
Commonly used term in Comp and Lit
Term | Definition |
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Round Character | A well-developed character; closely involved in and responsive to the action |
Flat Character | A barely developed character; stereotypical |
Dynamic Character | Characters that grow and change throughout the story |
Static Character | Characters that face the same challenges of a dynamic character yet remain essentially unchanged |
Unreliable Narrators | Misrepresent events and misdirect readers |
Style | The way in which a writer uses language and selects the arranging of words |
Tone | The attitude of the narrator or author of a work toward the subject matter, characters, or audience |
Imagery | Words of phrases that describe what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched |
Formal Diction | Characterized by elaborate, complex sentences; a learned vocabulary |
Informal Diction | Consistent with everyday speech, is characterized by slang and contractions |
Plot | is more than what happens, it is how what happens is revealed, the way in which the story's events are arranged |
Motivation | The reasons behind a characters behavior or we will not believe or accept the behavior |
Metaphor | Figures of speech that compare two dissimilar items |
Stock Character | Characters easily identifiable who behave so predictably that readers can readily recognize them |
Symbol | Symbols are so much apart of the human experience that they are likely to suggest the same thing to most people (Example: a rose suggests love) |