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Lit Terms All
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antagonist | the force or character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends |
| Protagonist | The main character of a work |
| Dynamic Character | a character who changes throughout the course of the story |
| Static Character | a character who does not change or who changes very little in the course of a story |
| Round Character | is a character who is fully described by the author |
| Flat Character | a character about whom little information is provided |
| Climax | the turning point, point of maximum interest, and highest tension in the plot |
| Conflict | the tension or problem in the story; a struggle between opposing forces |
| External Conflict | the problem or struggle that exists between the main character and an outside force. (ex: person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. the supernatural, person vs. technology, etc.) |
| Internal Conflict | the problem or struggle that takes place in the main character's mind (person vs. self) |
| Exposition | introduces the characters and the conflicts they face |
| Falling action | the end of the central conflict in a story, when the action starts to wind down |
| Figurative language | A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect |
| Imagery | the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses |
| Narrator | one who tells a story |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning (ex. buzz, bang, hiss) |
| Plot | the sequence of related events that make up a story |
| Resolution | occurs after the climax and is where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up |
| Rising action | the series of events that lead to the climax of the story |
| Setting | the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a story occurs |
| Dialect | The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. |
| 1st person point of view | the narrator is a character in the story who may or may not influence events within it I, we, me, ect. |
| 3rd person limited point of view | the narrator of the story is an outside observer and only knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character. |
| 3rd person omniscient point of view | The narrator is considered to be "all knowing" and can see/hear everything in the story and can tell the reader what each characters are thinking and feeling |
| Direct characterization | the author directly states a character's traits or makes direct comments about a character's nature |
| Indirect characterization | the reader draws conclusions and discovers a character's traits based upon clues provided by the author |
| Irony | a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens |
| Dramatic irony | occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature but are known by the audience |
| Verbal irony (sarcasm) | occurs when the speaker means something totally different than what he or she is saying |
| Motivation | the reason why a character acts, feels or thinks in a certain way |
| Theme | a thought or idea the author presents to the reader about life or human nature; a general message about life |
| Allusion | indirect or brief references to a person, place, or thing in history or well-known characters or events . |
| Cliché | an overused expression or a saying that is no longer considered original. |
| Connotation | the idea and feeling associated with a word |
| Denotation | the exact or dictionary meaning of a word |
| Foil | a character who serves as a contrast or a conflict to another character |
| Flashback | when action of a story is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events |
| Foreshadowing | Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a story |
| Genre | a type or category of literature. The four main literary genres include: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama |
| Moral | lesson that a story teaches |
| Mood | the feeling that a literary work passes on to readers |
| Symbol | A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level |
| Tone | the writer's attitude or feeling about his or her subject |
| Hyperbole | is exaggeration or overstatement |
| Personification | is giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| Alliteration | is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| Metaphor | comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as |
| Simile | is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
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Mrs.Morris
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