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| Lit terms | definition |
|---|---|
| sentimentality | the over reliance on emotional effect; over use of pathos |
| romanticism | a literary movement that valued individuality, imagination, and the truth in nature |
| rising action | the event or events that present and develop the conflict; the events that lead up to the climax |
| persona | the fictional mask or voice an author may adopt to tell a story |
| parody | a humorous imitation of another work |
| parable | a narrative, usually short, that is told to answer a difficult moral question or teach a moral truth |
| objectivity | an author's attempt to tell a story w/o bias |
| motivation | the external and internal forces that make a character act the way they do |
| impartial omniscience | the telling of a story by a third-person narrator who does not show bias |
| genre | a type of literary work |
| naturalism | an extreme form of realism in which the author presents his/her work as scientific observation |
| magical realism | fiction that uses both fantastic and realistic details |
| falling action | the events that follow the climax and resolve the conflict or bring it to a conclusion |
| epiphany | a sudden revelation of the true nature of a character or situation |
| epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of a literary work that often suggests the theme |
| denouement | the conclusion of a plot |
| connotation | the meaning of a word or words that is implied or suggested by the way it is used and not the actual of literal meaning |
| allegory | a story in which characters, places, things, and events represent greater things or ideas |
| explication | the act of explaining or interpreting the meaning of a text |
| fable | a very short, often humorous story told to present a moral |
| frame story | a story within a story |
| flat character | a simple, one-dimensional, usually unchanging character who shows no human depth or complexity |
| impressionism | a way of writting that shows the authors bias and point of view |
| omniscience | literally, "all-knowingness"; the ability of an author or narrator to tell the reader directly about the events and thoughts/feelings of the characters |
| compression | the use of short/brief language to tell a story as clearly and simply as possible; and economical use of language |
| mood | the atmosphere that is created by the author's language |
| foreshadowing | the intruduction of specific words, events, or images that suggest what is to come |
| setting | the place and time in which a story's plot takes place |
| pathos | the quality in a work that evokes sorrow or pity |
| novella | a short novel |
| figurative language | the use of words or a word that is literally inaccurate to evoke sensations or responses |
| exposition | the presentation of background information that the reader must be aware of |
| allusion | an implied or indirect reference to something that the reader is assumed to know about |
| convention | a traditional or commonly accepted technique of writing |
| diction | the author's choice and arrangement of words |
| climax | the turning point or point of highest interest |
| ambiguity | a situation expressed so as to have more than one possible interpretation |
| atmosphere | the mood or feeling or quality of life that is conveyed through the author's choice of words when describing the setting |
| abstract language | language that describes ideas or qualities rather than specific, observable things, people, or places |
| concrete language | language that describes specific, observable things, people, and places |
| didactic | a story or other work of art that is presented in order to teach a specific lesson |
| dramatic irony | the reader's awareness of a disagreement between the true nature of the situation and a character's perception of the situation |
| first person narration | the telling of a story by a character who is involved directly with the action |
| theme | the central, unifying point or idea that is made concrete, developed, and explored in the action of the work |
| tone | the expression or the author's attitude toward his or her subject matter, shown through the author's choice of words |
| verbal irony | the reader's awareness of a disagreement between the author's words and the true nature of the situation |
| surrealism | a way or writing that involves the presentation of the story in a dreamlike way |
| stream of consciousness | the author attempts to capture the flow of the character's thoughts |
| subplot | a minor plot often involving secondary characters that may add to the main plot |
| third person narrator | the telling of a story by a detached, usually anonymous narrator |
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