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Literary Elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing | Allusion |
| The use in a literary work of clues or hints that suggests events that will happen later in a story | Foreshadowing |
| The story leads the reader to expect one thing but the opposite happens; a contrast between appearance and reality | Irony |
| The quality of a literary work that makes the reader uncertain or tense about the outcome of events | Suspense |
| The feeling, emotion the author creates for his readers | Mood |
| The use of any object, person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself such as a quality, attitude, belief or value | Symbol |
| The actual words that characters speak; used to portray character and dramatize conflict | Dialogue |
| A central message or insight into life revealed through the work; a lesson about life | Theme |
| An interruption in chronological order with events that occurred earlier; a scene from the past is relived | Flashback |
| A device in which words, sounds, and/or ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis | Repetition |
| The writer's attitude toward his subject; often described by a single adjective | Tone |
| The words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch | Imagery |
| The perspective from which a story is told | Point of view |
| Narrator is not a character in story but knows everything about all of the characters | Third person omniscient point of view |
| The narrator is one of the characters in the story | First person point of view |
| Narrator is not a character in story but knows everything about one of the characters | Third person limited point of view |
| A character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story | dynamic character |
| A character that does not grow or change throughout the story; one that stays the same | Static character |
| A struggle between two opposing forces; central source of tension | conflict |
| when elements of a statement contradict each other; may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd but turns out to reveal a hidden truth | paradox |
| the character who is the exact opposite of the main character and therefor serves to maginfy certain characteristics of the main character. | Foil character |
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