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literary terms exam
literary terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| novella | a work of written, fictional, narrative longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. |
| setting | the place or type of surroundings where something takes place |
| round character | a character that encounters conflict and is changed by it |
| flat character | characters who do not change |
| static character | minor characters who do not undergo change, same as flat |
| dynamic character | changes throughout the story, same as round character |
| protagonist | main character in a story, the one that the audience empathizes |
| antagonist | stands in opposition to the protagonist |
| plot | the main events of the story |
| suspense | intense feeling the audience gets while waiting for the outcome of a certain event |
| foreshadowing | warning or indication of a future event |
| irony | using language that usually unifies the opposite |
| theme | central idea or ideas explored by a literary work |
| mood | a stance the author drops to show an emotional perspective towards the subject |
| climax | point where the story's conflict or tension hits it's highest point |
| verbal irony | a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to |
| dramatic irony | creating a situation so the audience knows more about the situation, the causes conflicts and their resolutions |
| narrator | a character who recounts the events of a novel |
| first person narrator | narrated by one character at a time, I or we |
| omniscient narrator | knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story, third person |
| symbolism | the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense |
| internal conflicts | the character experiences two opposite emotions or desires |
| external conflicts | a character finds himself in a struggle with those outside forces that hamper his progress |
| denouement | the final part of the novel which strands of the plot are drawn together and conflicts are solved |
| author | the writer of a book |
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