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Some literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repeating same consonant sound at the beginning of words |
| allusion | in a story, a reference to something well known |
| antagonist | the character in a story that is against the main character; the bad guy |
| protagonist | the main character; the hero |
| Assonance | repeating vowel sounds in a sentence |
| Atmostphere | also called mood. The way the story makes you feel; like gloomy. |
| characterization | the way a writer makes the character seem real to the reader |
| climax | the greatest turning point in the story |
| denouement | pronounced dee-noo-ma. Follows the climas and leads to the resolution |
| resolution | occurs after the climax and denouement. It is the new way things are going to be from then on in the story. |
| conflict | the protagonist verses the antogonist; the good guy versus the bad guy. |
| consonance | repeating consonant sounds at the end of the words |
| foreshadowing | hints or clues in the story that suggest what is to come; provides suspense |
| genre | the type of literature, like drama, tragedy, comedy, Gothic |
| hyperbole | an huge exaggeration |
| imagery | words that suggest mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings |
| irony | something that is not as seems; often it is the exact opposite of what it appears to be. |
| dramatic irony | the reader knows something about the circumstances that the character doesn't know |
| parallel structure | similar patterns of words in a sentence. |
| paradox | a situation or statement in a story that seems to contradict itself. |
| personification | a figure of speech where things are given human characteristics |
| plot | the structure of the story |
| narrative viewpoint (point of view) | the way the story is told to the reader; first person or third person. |
| first person narrative or point of view | telling things from the authors own perspective. First person is told with verbs like I, my and we. |
| Third person narrative or point of view | telling things from the perspective of someone looking on as things happen. Third person point of view is always told with third person verbs- he, she, it, or names of the people. |
| realism | the attempt to show life as it really is. |
| regionalism | literature reflects the geographic region of people, like the south, the north, the west. |
| setting | the time, place, background of the story |
| symbolism | use of words that mean something more than what they seem |
| theme | the common thread or repeated idea of the story; what is the story really about? |
| tone | the way the writer seems towards the characters, the story; could be anger, approval, friendly, prideful |
| boiling bubbles rime or reason safe and sound tried and true | alliteration |
| tinkle, sprinkle, twinkle mad as a hatter cat,hat | assonance |
| first and last odds and ends short and sweet | consonance |
| He is older than the hills. He ate everything in the house. | hyperbole |
| The wind cried through the night. | personification |
| Your friend turns up in ripped jeans. With a smirk, you say, "I see you have put on your best clothes. | verbal irony |
| Myrtle's apartment is described as "one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses | imagery |
| The American Dream | Theme of Great Gatsby |
| less is more | paradox |
| sunshine suggesting happiness, rain suggesting sorrow, and storm clouds suggesting despair. | symbolism |
| When Tom comfronts Daisy and Gatsby at the hotel | climax |
| Nick decides the East isn't for him and he is going back West | denouement |
| The gloomy feeling of the Fall of the House of Usher | atmosphere |
| The Great Gatsby was about the northeast. To Kill a Mockingbird was about the south. Cowboy stories are about the west. | regionalism |
| The Great Gatsby took place in the 1920's in the northeast, in the areas of the rich and also the poor. | Setting |
| The Green Light on the end of Daisy's pier. The "Valley of Ashes," where George Wilson's garage is. The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg. | symbols |
| The narrative of The Great Gatsy, the way it was written | First person narrative or point of view |
| The Great Gatsby is largely dark, pessimistic, and vapid as set by the purposelessness and carelessness of the wealthy, the ongoing string of meaningless parties, the ugliness of the Valley of Ashes. | Atmosphere or mood |
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