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Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Setting | Time and place of a story |
| Plot | The introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution of a story |
| Characters | The people or animals in a story |
| Protagonist | The main character in a story |
| Antagonist | Characters or forces that are working against the protagonist in a story |
| Conflict | The problem in a story. Can be man versus man, man versus nature, man versus society, or man versus himself |
| Theme | The message the author wants you to take away from the story |
| Concrete Poetry | poetry that has a shape that matches the meaning of the poem or a word in a poem (a poem about skateboards that is shaped like a skateboard) |
| Dialogue | a conversation between characters |
| Fiction | an invented story |
| Figurative Language | words used to give meaning, but the meaning is not to be taken literally (ex: simile, metaphor, personification) |
| Simile | a comparison of two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two things, saying that one thing IS the other thing (her smile . . . ) |
| Personification | giving human-like abilities or qualities to somthing that is not human |
| Flashback | the return to an event that happened before the present situation in a story |
| Foreshadowing | a hint of what is going to happen in a story |
| Imagery | the use of vivid descriptions to create pictures or images in the reader's mind. Focuses on the 5 senses |
| Mood | the general feeling that an author creates in a story. Mood is created largely through descriptions and setting (It was a dark and stormy night . . .) |
| Narrator | the teller of a story |
| First Person Point of View | a character in the story is the narrator. |
| Third Person Limited Omniscient Point of View | The narrator is not a character in the story, but knows the thoughts and feelings of one character in the story. |
| Third Person Omniscient Point of View | the narrator is all-knowing; knows the thoughts and feelings of every character in the story |
| Nonfiction | writing about real people and factual events |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like the thing it is describing (zip); sound effects (crash); animal sounds (oink) |
| Personal Narrative | a true story about a person's life told in first person |
| Poetry | literature that uses language choses for its sound and for its abilty to express and evoke emotion; uses the white space on the page differently than prose |
| Prose | Ordinary form of written language |
| Repetition | words, phrases, or sentences that are used over and over again |
| Rhyme | two or more words that have endings that sound the same |
| End Rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of poetry |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry |
| Rhythm | a regular repeated pattern of sounds in poetry or in music |
| Stanza | a group of two or more lines a poem that printed as a unit |
| Symbol | something that has meaning in itself, but also stands for something else. Ex: a heart stands for love |
| Flat Character | a character that has a single trait (Crush) |
| Round Character | a character that is well developed; the reader feels as though he/she knows much about that character (Nemo) |
| Static Character | a character that does not change in the story |
| Dynamic Character | a character that goes through a meaningful change in a story |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Bandwagon | a form of propaganda; everyone is doing it, you should too |
| Testimonial | a form of propaganda; a famous person tries to persuade you to believe as he/she does |
| Idiom | Example: It's raining cats and dogs. |
| Connotation | the emotional meaning associated with a word |
| Denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| Euphemism | a word or phrase that is thought to be more socially acceptable than another word or phrase (Ex: "passed on" instead of "dead") |
| Alliteration | the repeated initial sound in two or more words |
| Omniscient | all-knowing |
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shaughnessy
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