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English literary Voc
Advanced English 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to something assumed to be known, such as an historical event, mythology, a famous person, literary quote, or work of art. |
| Antagonist | The character fighting against or in conflict against the protagonist. |
| Archetype | Stereotype. Anything in the story that is considered universal. |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants. |
| Characterization | Act of creating or developing a character. |
| Conflict | The struggle between opposing forces |
| Internal conflict | Involves a character in conflict with him or herself. |
| External Conflict | Pits the main character against an outside force, such as another character, certain standards or expectations, or nature. |
| Climax | The highest point of interest or suspense. |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds at the middle to ends of words. |
| Dialect | The way a character speaks-includes their accent and also certain words they might use. |
| Couplet | A two line stanza |
| Dialogue | A conversation between characters. It is used to reveal character and to advance in action. In a story or novel, quotation marks are generally used to indicate a speaker's exact words. A new paragraph usually indicates a change of speaker. |
| Exposition | The beginning of the story; the author may provide background information |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that is carried out for a long passage. |
| Falling action | The increasing resolution of conflict; moving away from the climax |
| Figurative language | Language that does not mean exactly what it says. Metaphors and similes are both examples of figurative language. Opposite of Literal language--language that means exactly what it says. |
| Foreshadowing | Using clues to suggest events that have yet to occur. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration is an overstatement. It is often used to create humor. |
| Imagery | The use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, know about the character. |
| Irony | The difference between appearance and reality, expectation, and result, or meaning and intention. |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader or audience knows something that the other character do not know. |
| Jargon | Language peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group. For example, medical jargon. |
| Metonymy | A person, place, or thing that is referred to by something closely associated with it. |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison between two dissimilar things. It states things as if they were facts |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere or feeling created by the author. It is often useful in helping determine tone. |
| Oxymoron | Incongruous or contradictory words brought together to make a striking expression. "sweet sorrow" |
| Plot | The sequence of events in a literary work. |
| Point of view | The viewpoint of the narrator, the speaker or character that tells the story, of the story. |
| Protagonist | The most important character in a story. Against the Antagonist. |
| Simile | A simile is a figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly, using words "like" or "as" or occasionally "than." |
| Theme | This the central message of the literary work. It is not a condensation of the plot. Rather, it is a generalization about people or life that work communicates. |
| Tone | The author's attitude towards a subject. Tone could be optimistic, pessimistic, or angry. |
| Verbal Irony | When you say the opposite of what you mean. Sarcasm. |
| Situational Irony | When something happens that we do not expect to happen like twist endings or the killer coming back to life in a horror movie. |
| 1st person point of view | The story is told by someone involved in the story who uses "I" |
| 2nd person point of view | Rarely used. Refers to stories where the narrator speaks directly to the reader. |
| 3rd person/ Omniscient point of view | When the person telling story is not involved; they simply report the actions going on in the story. May also report the emotions and thoughts of all characters if they choose. This narrator knows EVERYTHING. They |
| 3rd person/ limited point of view | The person telling the story is not involved in the action. They simply report the actions going on in the story. May also report the emotions of a single character who has "told them" how they feel or think. |
| Major Character | characters are vital to the development and resolution of the conflict. In other words, the plot and resolution of conflict revolves around these characters |
| Minor Character | serve to complement the major characters and help move the plot events forward |
| dynamic | A character is a person who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving a central conflict or facing a major crisis. Tends to be central rather than peripheral characters, because resolving the conflict is the major role of central characters. |
| Static | A character is someone who does not change over time; his or her personality does not transform or evolve. |
| Round | A character is anyone who has a complex personality; he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person. |
| Flat | A character is the opposite of a round character. This literary personality is notable for one kind of personality trait or characteristic. |
| Stock | These types of characters who have become conventional or stereotypical through repeated use in particular types of stories. They are normally one-dimensional flat characters, but sometimes ____ personalities are deeply conflicted, rounded characters. |
| Direct Characterization | This refers to what the speaker or narrator directly says or thinks about a character |
| Indirect Characterization | This refers to what the character says or does. The reader is obliged to figure out what the character is like. And sometimes the reader will get it wrong. |
| Allegory | A story or tale with two or more meanings--a literal meaning and one or more symbolic levels |
| Atmosphere | The overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood |
| Monologue | A speech addressed to someone whose identity the audience knows, but who does not say anything response |
| Motivation | This refers to a character's reason ore reasons for saying or doing something |
| Motif | A theme or pattern that recurs in a work |
| Stereotype | Usually a character created based only on a few details which readers recognize as symbolizing other things (ex: a character with beady eyes is evil) |
| Symbolism | An object, an event, or a character that represent an idea or set of ideas |
| Soliloquy | A monologue in which a character expresses his or her thoughts to the audience and does not intend the other character to hear them |
| Style | the way the author expresses the main idea of a story. It is the way he or she expresses the individuality. |
| Synecdoche | A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language |
| Understatement | A type of metaphor that makes things out to be less than what they really are |
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words such as "rough and ready" |
| Paradox | A statement which seems to contradict itself, but in reality it does not ("It takes money to make money") |
| Apostrophe | a punctuation mark (‘) used to indicate either possession (e.g. Harry’s book; boys‘ coats) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g. can’t; he‘s; 1 Jan. ’99). |
| Slang | is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered acceptable in certain social settings |
| Aside | an actor’s speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage. An aside is usually used to let the audience know what a character is about to do or what he or she is thinking. |
| Stage direction | are instructions for actors, director, or crew, concerning action with regard to plot. They may be placed in parenthesis after a character's name and before the character's speech, or they may be placed in a general description of the action. |
| FOIL | character that has traits which are opposite from one of the main characters, in order to highlight various features of that main character's personality. |
| Connotation | an association that comes along with a particular word. They relate not to a word's actual meaning, or denotation, but rather to the ideas or qualities that are implied by that word. |
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