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literary terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| major characters | the protagonist, antagonist, and other characters that have a large role in a story |
| protagonist | the most important character in a story; the action of a story revolves around this character |
| antagonist | the character or force that opposes the character or force that opposes the protagonist |
| Minor characters | characters who take place in the action but are not the focus of attention; they have a small role in a story . |
| static characters | characters who do not change throughout a story |
| dynamic characters | characters who change throughout a story |
| Characterization: | The way in which an author reveals the traits of characters |
| Direct Characterization: | the author directly states a character’s traits |
| Indirect Characterization | requires the reader to infer a character’s traits through STEAL |
| conflict | a struggle between conflicting forces |
| Central conflict | the main conflict between the protagonist and antagonist |
| Internal Conflict: | struggles that occur within the mind of a character |
| External Conflict: | struggles that come from an outside source |
| Character vs. Self | a conflict in which the main character is at odds with an internal problem, such as fear, shyness, or guilt |
| Character vs. Character | a conflict in which the main character has a problem with another character |
| Character vs. Nature | a conflict in which the main character struggles against a harsh environmental or natural disaster |
| Character vs. Society | a conflict in which the main character faces a problem with a part or the whole of society |
| Character vs. Fate | a conflict in which the main character struggles with a force that seems beyond the character's control |
| Character vs. Supernatural | a conflict in which the main character struggles with a force that is not of the human world |
| Mood | The feeling an author creates for the reader; it can change throughout a story based on the events |
| Tone | an author’s attitude toward the setting, characters, or events in a story; helps create mood |
| Flash back | a section of a story that interrupts the current events to relate to an event from an earlier time |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues in a story to give hints about events that will happen in the future |
| Theme | the central message or lesson that an author conveys in a piece of literature |
| Main idea | the overall idea about a passage or text |
| Dialogue | a conversation between characters |
| Symbolism | anything that stands for or represents something else; it may stand for an idea, belief, feeling, or attitude |
| Irony | a literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
| Denotation | a word's definition or meaning |
| Connotation | the feelings or associations connected to a word (positive, neutral, or negative) |
| Character Perspective | the viewpoint of characters in a story; how characters view the events in a story |
| Point of View: | the viewpoint of the story’s narrator; how the story is being told |
| First Person Point of View | the narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters |
| Third-Person Limited | the narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one character |
| Third Person Omniscient | the narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one character |
| Third Person Objective: | the narrator tells a story without describing any character's thoughts or feelings; the narrator gives an objective, unbiased point of view |
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