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English Lit Terms
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| characterization | characters are imaginary persons who carry out the action of the pot. |
| plot | the sequence of events that make up literary work what happens in a story |
| setting | time and place |
| theme | the main idea expressed in literary work. The central insight that the work gives us about human life. |
| Simile | a phrase comparing 2 unlike things by using the words like or as- it is a expressed comparison |
| metaphor | a phrase comparing 2 unlike things that does not use like or as- it is implied comparison |
| epithet | a desciption phrase that renames a person |
| epic | a long narrative jouney travled |
| epic hero | a brave nd noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by grand events |
| epic plot | storyline that involves a long, strange journey with many complications |
| epic setting | it is vast in scope, and it included fantastic or exotic lands |
| epic themes | themes of universal concerns, themes that affect all people |
| archetypes | a universal symbol that is common and recurring. Characters and situations recognizable across times and cultures. A typical example of a things or person |
| epic simile | a comparison developed at great lengths over several lines |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial and stressed sounds at the beginnings of words or in accented syllables |
| narrator | a person who tells a story. The voice that an to tell a story. |
| conflict | a literary elements that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and a antagonist |
| protagonist | main character |
| antagonist | rival going against main character |
| allusion | a reference to a little or history person, plance, event, or comparison |
| parallel plots | a story structure in which the writer includes two or more separate narratives linked by a common character, events, or theme0 they occur at the same time in a literary work |
| flashback | account of a soversatio, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginnings of a story. Often, a flashback interrupts the chronological flow of a story to give the reader information needed to understand a character's present situation |
| symbol | person, place, or thing ,or activity that stands for something other than itself |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows something that the characters do not; it is used to heighten suspense and intensify the impact of the event or scene, the reader or spectator knows more about the true state of affairs than a character does |
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Johnathan Fogleman
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