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Literally terms set
Set 4 literally terms
Question | Answer |
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Third person limited point of view | Narrator plays no rule in the story ; tells about one characters thoughts, feelings, and actions |
Third person objective point of view | Narrator is a spectator of events and reports what is seen or heard; relays little to no thoughts or feelings |
First person point of view | Narrator is a character in the story and tells the story using pronouns I, we , me, us |
Character | A character is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story |
Characterization | Is the act of creating and describing characters in literature |
Figurative language | Is a literary device that uses words or phrases for effect, humorous, or exaggeration purposes, instead of their literal translation |
Hyperbole | Is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech |
Onomatopoeia | A type of word that sound like what it does |
Understatement | is a literary device by which a particular quality of a person, object, emotion, or a situation is downplayed or presented as being less than what is true to the situation |
Pun | Is a joke bases on the interplay of homophones- words with the same pronunciation by different meanings |
Connotation | Is a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning |
Denotation | Is the objective meaning of a word |
Archetype | is a character in novel terms and is a type of character who represents a universal pattern, and therefore appeals to our human ‘collective unconscious’ |
Euphemism | A word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic |
Cliche | Can refer to any aspect of a literary narrative - a specific phrase, scenario, genre, or character |