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Lit Terms and Device

TermDefinition
Setting Time and place
Characterization What the character looks like: age and physical description
Characterization What the character thinks or says
Characterization What the character does
Characterization What others think/say about the character
Characterization What the author tells the reader directly
Conflict Problem or struggle between two forces
Internal Conflict A struggle within a characters own mind
external conflict A struggle with some fierce outside of the character
Suspense The feeling that a reader experiences when he is she is uncertain if these about the outcome of the events
Situational Irony When the opposite of what the reader expects to happen actually happens
Allusion A reference to another work of literature, piece of art music or historian mythological biblical event or person
Theme The main message or life lesson that the author is presenting to the reader
Plot The order of events in a story
Exposition Background info
Rising action Events that lead to the turning point
Turning point A moment of great tension and decisive action when the end becomes unavoidable
Falling action Events that lead to the resolution
Resolution The outcome or result of the main conflict
Foreshadowing Hints or clues about future events in the story
flashback A scene that interrupts the action to show an event that happened at an earlier tume
Dramatic irony When the reader knows more than the characters in a story
Point of view Perspective from which the story is told
verbal irony When the characters intentionally ay the opposite of what they mean, how they feel, or what their actions show
Symbol And object, person, place, our action that has meaning by itself and stands for something larger
Created by: Leah.blauwet
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