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Final exam terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| First person | Narrator is a character in the story and tells the story using pronouns i, me, my, we, us, etc... |
| Third person limited | Narrator plays no role in the story, tells about one characters thoughts, feelings, actions |
| Third person objective | Narrator is a spectator of events and reports what is seen or heard, relays little to no thoughts and feelings |
| Third person omniscient | Narrator plays no role in the story, "god-like" "all-knowing" knows ALL the characters thoughts, feelings, actions |
| Alliteration | The repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds within a group of words |
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or thing |
| Antagonist | Usually the bad guy and is in direct conflict to the main character |
| Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in a series or words, phrases, or syllables |
| Character | A person, animals, being, creature, or thing in a story |
| Characterization | The act of creating and describing character in literature |
| Climax | The most interesting part or the turning point of the story |
| Conflict | The problem or struggle in the story |
| Connotation | A feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal meaning |
| Consonance | Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions |
| Credible | Trusted |
| Denotation | Objective meaning of a word |
| Dialogue | Conversation in the story |
| Direct characterization | When the author TELLS what the character is like |
| Dynamic character | Grows or changes as a result of the story |
| External conflict | Is one that can be seen and involves a character struggling against an opposing force; another character or obstacle |
| Figurative language | A literary device that uses words or phrases for effect, humorous, or exaggeration purposes, instead of their literal meaning |
| Flat character | Character has only 1-2 traits revealed to the reader |
| Foreshadow | Hints or clues the author gives about what will happen in the story |
| Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech |
| Imagery | The use of vivid descriptions to create a mental image in the readers mind |
| Indirect characterization | Is when the author SHOWS what the character is like |
| Internal conflict | Occurs within the characters heart or mind |
| Irony | A contrast of what the reader expects and what really happens |
| Meatphor | A figure of speech that compares two things, usually by stating that one thing is another |
| Mood | How the author makes the reader feel |
| Motivation | What drives the character (fear, needs, wants) |
| Onomatopoeia | A type of word that sounds like it does |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
| Personification | A figure if speech that attributes human characteristics, emotion, and behavior to animals and inanimate objects |
| Plot | The series of events in a story |
| Point of view | The vantage point or perspective from which a story is told |
| Protagonist | The main character in a story and usually the good guy or hero |
| Rhyme | A repetition of similar sounds at the end of two or more consecutive sentences |
| Round character | Character is multi-dimensional and many different traits are revealed |
| Setting | The when, where, and environment of the story |
| Simile | A rhetorical device used to compare two things using "like", "as", or "than" |
| Static character | Character does not change as a result of the story |
| Theme | The central idea or insight about human life that a story reveals |
| Tone | How the author feels |
| Unreliable narrator | Biased and cannot or does not tell the truth |
Created by:
Zannah