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Sloan's lit terms
Sloan's Lit terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| allusion | reference to a person, place, etc. in a work of literature |
| apostrophe | when a person directly addresses an absent person, inanimate object, or abstract being |
| archetype | reoccuring pattern, theme or symbol occuring in literature |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| ballad | story told in song usually by an impersonal narrator |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| chorus | in Shakespeare's play, the chorus acts as a narrator |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces; internal and external |
| antagonist | character who opposes protagonist |
| drama | literature written for performance |
| dramatic irony | when audience or a character knows something that other characters don't know |
| Epic | long narrative poem written about the exploits of a legendary character |
| epithet | adjective or adjective phrase used to describe a characteristic of a person |
| Epiphany | the "a-ha moment" or moment of revelation |
| flashback | a device the author uses to explain events that happened before the current narration |
| foreshadowing | hints as to what is to come; alluding to the future |
| free verse | poem with no rhyme or meter |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| imagery | using the 5 senses to create a mental picture in the reader's head |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within one line of poetry |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of a line of poetry |
| couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines of poetry |
| indirect characterization | when the reader has to infer or use clues which imply the characteristics of a character |
| direct characterization | when characteristics about the character are stated directly in the text |
| irony | difference in appearence and reality in terms or either situation, meaning, or action |
| lyric poetry | short expressive poem that expresses thoughts and feelings |
| metaphor | comparison of two or more things directly (without using like, as, or than) |
| narrator | character telling the story or speaker of the poem |
| Onomatopoeia | sound words |
| oxymoron | opposite words paired together to create affect |
| foil | opposite or contrasting characters |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| point of view | perspective from which the narrative is told; can be first, second, third person limited or third person omniscient |
| plot | organization of character and action in a novel or story |
| pun | play on words |
| protagonist | hero of the work of literature; main character in a work of literature |
| expostition | part of plot diagram which describes the setting, the characters, and gives other background information |
| narrative hook | part of plot diagram which hooks the reader and makes him/her continue to read |
| rising action | events that lead to the climax |
| climax | part of story where the emotion and action is most intense |
| falling action | events that lead to the resolution |
| resolution | the novel or story's outcome |
| satire | A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule |
| setting | when, where, what time, etc. the events in the story take place |
| monologue | long speech given by a character when others are present on stage |
| aside | words spoken by a character to the audience or another character which are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage |
| simile | comparison of 2 or more things using like, as, or than |
| symbol | something that stands for or represents something else |
| Soliloquy | long speech a character gives when he/she is ALONE on stage |
| mood | the reader's feeling or emotions he/she feels when reading the work of literature |
| autobiography | book about a person's life written by that person |
| biography | book about a person's life written by someone else |
| fiction | a work of literature that is not real |
| tone | writer's attitude towards the reader and subject |
| theme | universal message a work of literature leaves with the reader |
| tragedy | depicts serious incidents in which protagonists undergo a change from happiness to suffering, often involving the death of others as well as the main characters, and resulting from both the protagonists' actions and the inescapable limits of the human con |
| comic relief | humerous part of play that breaks up the tension |
| fantasy | any work of lit disengaged from reality; often takes place in another world with human and non human characters |
| science fiction | a work of lit in which technology or other scientific principles contribute significantly to the plot |
| non-fiction | work of literature that deals with real people, things, events, or places |
| novel | work of prose consisting of more than 50,000 words |
| essay | short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view |
| short story | short concentrated fictional prose narrative |
| sonnet | 14 line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter |
| stereotype | fixed idea or conception of a character that does not allow for any individuality; usually not true |
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