Literary Terms
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| foreshadowing | Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur | ||||
| metaphor | comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common. | ||||
| irony | special kind of contrast between appearance and reality—usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems | ||||
| personification | The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | ||||
| alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound 1) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers 2) cool cat | ||||
| allusion | reference in literature to a familiar person | ||||
| antagonist | against protagonist | ||||
| autobiography | author's account of his/her own life | ||||
| biography | story of a person's life by another person | ||||
| mood | a feeling, in the reader, the author creates through his/her word choice | ||||
| tone | the author's feeling toward his/her subject | ||||
| theme | the lesson of a story | ||||
| external conflict | man vs. man/man vs. nature | ||||
| internal conflict | man vs. self/man vs. society | ||||
| resolution | how a story ends | ||||
| narration | the point of view from which a story is told | ||||
| climax | the point in a story when the protagonist faces his/her conflict |
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Created by:
daphnecm
on 2004-02-20