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hayy literary terms
lord of the flies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imagery | the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. |
| tone | the writers attitude toward the material and/or readers. |
| mood | the climate of feeling in a literary work |
| foreshadowing | the introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later |
| theme | the central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. a theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. |
| alliteration | repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within |
| symbol | something that on the surface is its literal self but which also has another meaning or even several meanings |
| coming of age novel | where the character has several experiences that changes them and matures them |
| conflict | the struggle within the plot between opposing forces. the protagonist engages in conflict with the antagonist |
| omniscient narrator | multiple points of view |
| limited narrator | the narrator is an outside who sees into the mind of one of the characters |
| soliloquy | a dramatic convention by means of which a character alone on stage utters his or her thoughts aloud |
| monologue | character recites a long paragraph with people on stage |
| personification | human characteristics are given to inanimate objects |
| stereotype | a fixed notion, opinion , image of a person or group of people |
| plot | what happens in the novel, play, etc. an authors selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and to give the story a particular focus |
| dialogue | verbal exchanges between characters. dialogue makes characteres seem real by revealing thoughts, responses, and emotional states. |
| dramatic irony | audience knows, character does not |
| situational irony | when something unexpected happens |
| verbal irony | lies, words spoken are not true |
| allusion | reference to person place thing event history or literature |
| motivation | the reason why a character acts , feels, or thinks in a certain way. |
| local color | fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features - including characters, dialects, customs, history, and topography - of a particular region. |
| first person point of view | i or we |
| third person point of view | me or them |
| microcosm | a small representative system of a larger system. |
| drama | designed for performance in a theater, actors take roles of characters. |
| anachronism | out of date place, not irrelevant. |
| style | writer arranges words to achieve particular effects |
| antagonist | opponent of the protagonist |
| protagonist | the main character, central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy |
| paradox | a statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then on close inspection turns out ot make sense. |
| literal meaning | words that do not deviate from their defined meaning |
| figurative meaning | describes something by comparing it with something else. |
| iambic pentameter | TOO LAZY TO TYPE IT :) |
| allegory | extended metaphor, used to the equality of life outside. |
| dynamic character | undergoes some change |
| static | does not change |
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