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Literary Terms
Literature Terms | Meanings/Parts |
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Novel | a wrok of prose fiction at leeast 50,000 words |
Genre | type of literature |
Examples of Genres | novel, short story, poem, tragedy, play, epic |
Types of characters | flat (stock flat), round, static, dynamic |
Flat | stereotypical, minor, 1 dimensional |
Examples of Flat Characters | Gaston, Scar, JAfar, Ursula, Nurse, Friar Laurence |
Stock Flat examples | the villian, the nerd, the jock, the stern nun, and the mad scientists |
Round | 3 dimensional, main complex and complicated |
Round examples | Scout, Romeo and Juliet |
Static | don't change |
Static examples | Abby (Crucible and Danforth (Most Dangerous game) |
Dynamic | characters that change throughout |
Dynamic examples | Darth vader, Jem and Scout (TKAM) |
Plot | the sequence of events in a story with an emphiasis on cause and affect |
Five Parts of Plot | Expostion, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement (Resolution) |
Exposition | introduction of antaginist adn protagonist, intro to conflict, setting, backround info presented ----- (Antaginist does not have to be person---ex. Perfect Storm, the giver, number the stars) |
Foils | contrasting characters |
Foil examples | Grifindor and Slythrin, Romeo and Tybalt, Abby and Elizabeth |
Conflict | the problem |
Common Conflicts | human vs. human, self, nature, God, technology, or supernatural |
Setting | time, place, mood (atmosphere) |
Rising Action | the conflict developing and moving towards the climax |
Climax | the turning point |
Falling Action | conflict begins to wond down |
Denoue'ment (resolution) | conflict is solved |
Theme | main implied insight of a literary work |
Motfi or Rhythm | recurring word, phrase, image, or symbol that helps sonify the work and often helps develop the theme |
Motif/ rhytm examples | jaws, harry potter |
Pattern | the motif becomes constant or forms the structure of the work |
Buildungsroman | growing up story |
Buildingsroman examples | The Facts of Life, Little Women, The Brady Bunch, (Rocky) |
Point of View | Choice of narrator in story or literature |
Point of View Examples | 1st person (unreliable narrator), 2nd, 3rd (omniscient), 3rd (objective), 3rd (limited) |
Foreshadowing | seeing something that might happen in the future |
Symbol | concrete; represents something else |