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Literary terms for English II
Question | Answer |
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Omniscient Point of View | when the narrator knows everything in a piece of literature |
Ambiguity | Words or phrases with more than one meaning |
Synecdoche | When part of something stands for a whole, or a whole stands for a part |
Apostrophe | talking to something or someone that isn't physically there |
Mood | Feeling or emotion that a work of literature evokes |
Theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls entire literary work |
Conflict | the struggle within the plot between opposing forces |
Types of conflict | person vs person person vs society person vs nature person vs self person vs faith/God(s) |
Setting | place or type of surrounding where something is positions or where and event takes place |
Theme Statement | turns central meaning of a book into a universal statement |
Litotes | When something is expressed by negating its opposite. (i was not unhappy) |
Allusion | a reference in a book to a person, place, or event |
Paradox | contradictions that make sense on a deeper level |
protagonist | leading character or hero in a story or novel whose conflict sets the plot in motion |
Antagonist | one who opposes another negatively (against the protagonist) |
Point of view | manner of narrator viewing things, attitude, position at which something is observed |
Connotation | multiple meanings a word carries other than its dictionary definition |
Diction | choice of particular words with specific type of tone |
Imagery | text that makes a mental picture using the five senses |
Animal Imagery | how an author compares situations and characters to animals, or gives them animal characteristics |
genre | when literature has a certain category or style |
verbal Irony | use of words that are the opposite of the speakers mind (sarcasm) |
Framing | using features, wording, location, problems or topic at both the begging and end of a story. (story within a story) |
situational irony | accidental events that happen that seem oddly appropriate |
style | writer's creative way determined by choices with diction, figurative language, sounds, rhythmic patterns ect. |
allegory | interaction of multiple symbols which together create a moral, spiritual, or political meaning |
figurative language | relates something unfamiliar to something familiar *similes *metaphors *personification |
oxymoron | two opposing words together (pretty ugly) |
simile | comparison between to unlike things using like, as, or than |
hyperbole | exaggeration to emphasize the truth |
dramatic irony | audience knows the outcome but the character does not |
tone | attitude or expression towards the audience and or subjects |
direct characterization | when the author make specific traits about a character to tell about them |
indirect | the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him. |
syntax | arrangements of how sentences are made with a word or grammatical change |
antithesis | opposite terms or PHRASES next to each other (it was the best of times , and it was the worst of times) |
First Person point of view | the story through the narrators eyes (I, Me, my) |
soliloquy | spoken in a play when the character believes he/she are alone (thoughts) |
denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word |
metaphor | comparison/ analogy without using like or as |
personification | giving inanimate objects human traits |
symbol | an object that represents or stands for something else |
motif | incident, object, or theme, that reoccurs throughout a story and supports the theme |
persona | part of a person's character that is seen by others |
limited 3rd point of view | narrator knows only the thoughts of a single character |
satire | use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, a situation (used for change) |
antithesis | opposite terms or PHRASES next to each other (it was the best of times , and it was the worst of times) |
First Person point of view | the story through the narrators eyes (I, Me, my) |
soliloquy | spoken in a play when the character believes he/she are alone (thoughts) |
denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word |
metaphor | comparison/ analogy without using like or as |
personification | giving inanimate objects human traits |
symbol | an object that represents or stands for something else |
motif | incident, object, or theme, that reoccurs throughout a story and supports the theme |
persona | part of a person's character that is seen by others |
limited 3rd point of view | narrator knows only the thoughts of a single character |
satire | use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, a situation (used for change) |
synesthesia | use of one sense to describe another sense (that's a loud red) |
indirect | the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him. |
syntax | arrangements of how sentences are made with a word or grammatical change |
First Person point of view | the story through the narrators eyes (I, Me, my) |
soliloquy | spoken in a play when the character believes he/she are alone (thoughts) |
denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word |
metaphor | comparison/ analogy without using like or as |
personification | giving inanimate objects human traits |
symbol | an object that represents or stands for something else |
motif | incident, object, or theme, that reoccurs throughout a story and supports the theme |
persona | part of a person's character that is seen by others |
limited 3rd point of view | narrator knows only the thoughts of a single character |
satire | use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, a situation (used for change) |
irony | words or phrase opposite of lteral meaning |
juxtaposition | state of bring close together or side by side (opposites) |