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English 12 Lit terms
Literary terms.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts. |
| Allusion | A reference to a statement, person, place event or thing that is known for literature, history, religion, myth politics or some other field of knowledge |
| antagonist: | the character or force that opposes or blocks the protagonist (main character) |
| author's purpose: | either to persuade, inform, or entertain; indicates meaning behind the text |
| climax: | the point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense |
| diction: | a writer's or speaker's specific choice of words |
| dramatic irony: | when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a work does not know |
| external conflict | character struggles against some outside force |
| Fable | Short story with animals as the main characters That teach a moral pra or lession |
| figurative language | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level (includes simile, metaphor, and personification) |
| Flashback | A scene in a narrative work that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" |
| Foreshadow | the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| Free verse | poetry that has no regular meter |
| haiku | a brief, unrhymed, three-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Imagery | Language that speaks to the senses |
| Internal conflict | Character vs herself or himself |
| Irony | Difference between what is expected to happen and actually what happens |
| Mood | The overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| Myth | Anonymous traditional story TYAT explains a belief custom or mysterious phenomenon |
| Onomatopoeia | Words who’s sounds whose imitates it’s meaning |
| Paradox | an apparent contradiction that is actually true (ex: The only constant is change.) |
| Personification | giving human or living characteristics to nonhuman or living things |
| Protagonist | the main character in a work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry; he or she drives the action |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective work such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| Suspense | uncertainty or anxiety a reader feels about upcoming events in story |
| Symbol | A concrete object that represents an abstract idea |
| Theme | the central idea or insight of a work; usually reveals the writer's view on the world or something about human nature |
| Tone | the attitude of the writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or character |
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