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Lit. Terms Dillon 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | sequence of events in literary work. |
| Rising Action | All the events leading up to the climax. |
| Climax | A high point or interest. |
| falling action | Leads to the denouement or resolution. |
| Resolution | general insight or change. |
| Narrator /point of view | is a speaker or character who tells the story. |
| omniscent | all knowing, third person narrator. |
| first person | when a character in the story tells the story. |
| Third Person Limited | when a voice outside the story narrates, the story has a third person narrator. |
| Setting | The time and place it happend |
| Character | is a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| Static | Does not change. |
| Dynamic | Changes throughout the story. |
| Flat | shows only one trait. |
| Round | shows many different traits. |
| Motivation | it explains what a character thinks. |
| Conflict | a struggle between two forces. |
| Internal Conflict | involves a character in conflict with himself or herself. |
| External Conflict | struggles against an outside force. |
| Protagonist | the main character in literary work. |
| Antagonist | is a character or force in conflict with a main character. |
| Direct Characterization | directly states a characters traits. |
| Indirect Characterization | provides clues about a character by describing what a character looks like, does, or says. |
| Figurative Language | is a writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally. |
| Alliteration | a repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
| Allusion | is a reference to a well known person, place, or event. |
| Flashback | which authors present material that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative. |
| Foreshadowing | is the use of literary work of clues that suggest events that yet to occur. |
| Imagery | is the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. |
| Irony | is the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality. |
| Verbal Irony | words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. |
| Dramatic Irony | there is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true. |
| Situational Irony | an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters. |
| Metaphor | is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. |
| Simile | is a figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two different things. |
| Symbolism | is anything that stands for something else. |
| Theme | is a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work. |
| Tone | of a literary work is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience. |
| Mood | is the feeling created in the reader by literary work or passage. |
| Onomotopeia | the use of words to imitate sounds. |
| Personification | is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. |
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