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Literary Terms
8th Grade Final for Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean |
| Metaphor | A comparison between 2 unlike objects – states one is the other |
| Simile | A comparison between 2 unlike objects – uses like or as |
| Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects. |
| Symbol | an object, sign, or image that is used to stand for something else |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement. |
| Oxymoron | putting two contradictory words together. |
| Imagery | Language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. |
| Character | Person or animal in the story |
| Round | Fully-developed |
| Flat | One-dimensional |
| Static | Does not change |
| Dynamic | changes |
| Protagonist | Good guy / main character |
| Antagonist | Bad guy or opposing force |
| Climax | Highest emotional point in the story |
| Conflict | struggle |
| Internal | man vs self |
| External | man vs man, or man vs nature |
| Setting | determining Time and Place |
| Theme | the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express. |
| Flashback | Action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding. |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature |
| Idiom | does not seem to make sense if taken literally |
| Mood | The emotional attitude the author takes towards his subject. |
| Tone | the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: |
| Irony | implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. |
| verbal irony | is when an author says one thing and means something else. |
| dramatic irony | is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. |
| irony of situation | is a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results. |
| Characterization | The process of revealing character through indirect and direct methods. |
| Dialogue | The conversation between two or more characters |
| Exposition | The part of the story in which the audience if given the needed information (main character, setting, mood, and conflict) |
| Falling Action | The action that comes after the climax and before the resolution |
| Genre | Collective grouping of literary works (mysteries, historical fiction, free verse, etc. |
| Plot/Plot Diagram | The ordered structure or sequence of events in a story. |
| Point of view (POV) | The point from which a story is seen or told. |
| Rising Action | The events in a plot that occur after the exposition but before the climax. |
| Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| Connotation | The implied meaning of a word. |
| 1st person point of view | The point of view is solely that of the character telling the book. |
| Resolution | The final outcome of the plot. Situations are resolved. |
| Dialect | A form of language as it is spoken in a certain region or among a certain group of people. |
| Diction | The choice of words, especially with regards to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. |
| 3rd person point of view | The point of view of a single character who is used by the author as a central observer. |
| 3rd person omniscent point of view | The writer is able to present the inner thoughts and feelings of all his/her characters. |
| Suspense | An expectant uncertainty concerning the outcome of the plot. |
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