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Literary Toolbox
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| opposing, hostile | antagonist |
| lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem | character |
| personality a character displays | characterization |
| the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative | climax |
| a series of difficulties forming the central action narrative | complication |
| a struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel play, or narrative poem | conflict |
| the emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse | connotation |
| the literal meaning of a word | denotation |
| to tie up all lose ends | denouement |
| a representation of speech patterns of a particular region or social group | dialect |
| where characters speak to one another | dialog |
| a writers choice of words, particularly, for clarity, effectiveness, and precision | diction |
| the alteration of objective facts | exaggeration |
| the kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information | exposition |
| a brief story or poem that is told to present a moral | fable |
| all of the action in play that followed the turning point | falling action |
| a type of comedy based on a far fetched humorous situation, often with ridiculous or stereotype characters | farce |
| language that is not intended to be interrupted in a literal sense | figurative language |
| a scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interrupts the action to show an event that happened at an earlier time | flash back |
| embodies one or two qualities, ideas, or traits that can be readily described in a brief summary; they are not psychologically complex characters and therefore are readily accessible to readers | flat character |
| a character who sets off another character by contrast | foil |
| the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come | foreshadow |
| literary genre focusing on dark, mysterious, terrifying events | gothic |
| language that appeals to any sense or any combination of senses | imagery |
| a reversal of the usual order of words to achieve some kind of emphasis | inversion |
| a contrast of an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen | irony |
| when one theme or idea or person is paralleled to another happen | juxtaposition |
| a fact of idea stated directly | literal language |
| a comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them | metaphor |
| the emotional attitude the author takes towards his subject | mood |
| a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work; a dominant there or central idea | motif |
| the kind of writing or speaking that tells a story | narration |
| one who narrates or tells a story | narrator |
| a fictional narrative in phrase generally longer than a short story | novel |
| a summary or recapitulation of a piece of literature | paraphrase |
| the sequence of events or happening in a literary work | plot |
| the vantage point from which a narrative is told | point of view |
| the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem | protagonist |
| usually the humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time | pun |
| those events in a play that lead to a turning point in the action | rising action |
| the time and place of the action in a narrative | setting |
| a manner of putting thoughts into words or the characteristic mode of construction and expression in writing and speaking | style |
| the equality of a literary work that makes this reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events | suspense |
| any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself | symbol |
| a person, place, or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well | symbolism |
| the main idea or the basic meaning go a literary work | theme |
| the central idea of an essay | thesis |
| the attitude a writer takes towards his or her subject characters and readers | tone |
| the climax of the story, in which the end result becomes inevitable | turning point |
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