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Fiction terms (B)
Fiction terms- b list
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Characterization: | The process by which an author creates, develops, and presents a character. |
| Chronological: | A pattern of organization, or presentation, that introduces events or things in their normal time sequence. |
| Concrete: | Opposite of abstract. Language referring directly to what we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell. Most literature uses this kind of language and expresses even abstract concepts through clear images and metaphors. |
| Dialogue: | The conversation that goes on between or among characters in a literary work. |
| Episode: | A single, unified incident within a narrative that may or may not advance the plot. |
| Exposition: | The part of the work that provides necessary background information. |
| Fiction: | A prose narrative that is the product of the imagination. |
| Figurative language: | Language used imaginatively and nonliterally. This kind of language is composed of such figures of speech as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, symbol, and irony. |
| Foreshadowing: | A device by which the author hints at something to follow. |
| Hyperbole: | A figure of speech that achieves emphasis and heightened effect (either serious or comic) through deliberate exaggeration. |
| Imagery: | Most commonly refers to visual pictures produced verbally through literal or figurative language, although it is often defined more broadly to include sensory experiences other than the visual. |
| Irony: | Refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. |
| Verbal irony: | A contrast between with is literally said and what is actually meant. |
| Dramatic irony: | The state of affairs known to the reader (or audience) is the reverse of what its participants suppose it to be. |
| Situational irony: | A set of circumstances turns out to be the reverse of what is expected or is appropriate. |
| Literal: | Accurate, exact, and concrete language (in contrast to figurative language) . |
| Metaphor: | A figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared without the use of like or as. |
| Point of view: | The angle or perspective from which a story is told. The choice of who is to tell the story, who will talk to the reader. It may be a narrator outside the work (omniscient) or inside the work (first person). |
| Simile: | A figure of speech in which two essentially dissimilar objects are compared with one another by the use of like or as. |
| Symbol: | Literally, something that stands for something else. In literature, any word, object, action, or character that embodies or evokes a range of additional meaning and significance. |
| Understatement: | A figure of speech in which what is literally said falls considerably “under” the magnitude or seriousness of what is being discussed. This technique has the effect of emphasizing the very thing that it tries to minimize. |
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