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Taylor Lit Terms
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The sequence of events and actions in literary work | Plot |
| The pattern formed by by the evnets and actions in literary work. Traditional elements of structure are introduction, complications, climax, and conclusion. | Structure |
| The beggining of a work which usually sugest the setting and shows one or more of the main characters. | Introduction |
| Events or actions that that establish the conflct in a literary work. | Complications |
| The turning point, often signified by a characters making a significant decision or taking action to resolve a conflict | Climax |
| The ending of a work, which often shows the effects of the climactic action or decision. | Conclusion |
| A struggle between internal and external forces in a literary work | Conflict |
| A discrepancy between what is said and what is done or between what is expected and what actually happens | Situationl irony |
| The fictional people who are part of the action of literary work | Character |
| A conversation between two or more fictional characters | Dialogue |
| A variety of language different from the generally taught in school | Dialect |
| Slang or informalities in speech or writing. Colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone. Colloquial expressions in writing include local or regional dialects | Colloquialism |
| A speech by one character addressed to be silent or absent listener. | Monologue |
| A speech by one character in a play, given while t he character is alone on the stage or standing apart form theq other characters and intended to represent the inner thoughts of the character. | Soliloquy |
| The reason or reasons to cause a character to think , act, or speak in a certain way | Motivation |
| Comments by the playwright to provide actors with information about actions and ways of speaking specific lines. | Stage directions |
| Used to describe a character who changes in some significant way during the course of work. | Dynamic character |
| Used to describe a character who shows many different facets; often presented in depth and with great detail | Round character |
| Used to describe a character who has only one outstanding trait or feature | Flat character |
| Used to describe a character who does not change in any significant way during the course of work | Static character |
| The position from which the details of the work are reported or described | Point of view |
| The person who writes the literary work. Do NOT confuse the author with the speaker or narrator | Author |
| The voice that is heard in a poem | Speaker/Persona |
| The voice that tells a work of fiction | Narrator |
| A narrator who knows everything and can report both external actions and conversations as well as he internal thoughts of all characters and who often provides evaluations and judgements of characters and events | Omniscient |
| A narrator who can report external actions and conversations but who can describe the internal thoughts of only one character. | Limited omniscient |
| A narrator who is also a character in the work and who uses "I" or "we" to tell the story. First-person narrators can report their own thoughts but not the thought of others | First person |
| A reliable narrator convinces readers that he/she is reporting events, actions, and conversations accurately and without prejudice | Reliable narrator |
| An unreliable narrator raises suspicions in the minds of readers that events, actions, and conversations may be reported inaccurately and that evaluations may reflect intentional or unintentional prejudice | Unreliable narrator |
| A narrator who shows the external events and conversations but cannot look inside the minds of characters or offer evaluations and judgements. | Objective |
| The time and place of a literary work. Setting includes social, political, and economic background as well as geographic, physical locations | Setting |
| Aspects of a setting that exist outside of the characters | Exterior |
| Aspects of the setting that exist inside the minds and hearts of the characters | Interior |
| An interruption in the chronological order of a work by description of earlier occurences | Flashback |
| The way an author chooses words; arranges them in lines, sentences, paragraphs, or stanzas | Style |
| The attitude of an author toward the subject of the work. | Tone |
| The emotional aura of a work. Setting, tone, and events can affect the mood. | Mood |
| Choice of words | Diction |
| The nonliteral, associative meaning of a word, the implied, suggested meaning. | Connotation |
| The strict, literal, dictionary definiton of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | Denotation |
| Words that appeal to five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, & hearing | Imagery |
| Sarcasm involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridcule someone or something. | Sarcasm |
| The way words are arranged in phrases or sentences and the way phrases or sentences are arranged in paragraphs, speeches, or lines and stanzas. | Syntax |
| Pattern of sound | Rhythm |
| The matching of final sounds in two or more words | Rhyme |
| The repitition of identical initial sounds in neighboring words or syllablles | Alliteration |
| A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, nyth, place, or work of art. | Allusion |
| Words or expressions that carry more than their literal meaning | Figurative language |
| Comparison of two unlike things | Metaphors |
| Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" | Similes |
| Adressing an inanimate object or place as if it were alive | Apostrophe |
| Giving an inanimate object the qualities of a person or animal | Personification |
| An object, action, person, or animal that stands for something more than its literal meaning. | Symbol |
| A discrepancy between what is aid and what is meant or between what is said and what the reader knows to be true | Verbal Irony |
| A work that targets humans vices and follies or social institutions and convertions for reform or ridicule. | Satire |
| The central idea the reader seeks as he/she reads a work and thinks about it. | Theme |
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