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Lit Terms List Six
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| round character | has more dimensions to their personalities - they are complex, just as real people are |
| external conflict | conflicts that exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person and a whole society |
| internal conflict | a conflict that involves opposing forces within a person's mind |
| exposition | one of the four major forms of disclosure, in which something is explained or "set forth" |
| flashback | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time |
| irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality |
| mood | an atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected |
| parable | a relatively short story that teachers a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life |
| romance | a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful |
| style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax |
| romanticism | a revolt against Rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century |
| transcendentalism | a nineteenth century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience |
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