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Lalab
literary terms for language arts lab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| climax | high point of the story |
| setting | time;place where story takes place |
| personification | giving human charactersitics to none human things |
| foreshadowing | to show or indicate beforehand |
| dynamic character | a character who goes under a permanent change in outlook or character during the story |
| allusion | a passing or casual reference |
| theme | the moral of a story, author wishes to express |
| conflict | internal, external. a problem in life |
| simile | a figure of speechin which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
| dramatic irony | when somthing is ironic |
| omniscient | complete or unlimited knowledge |
| static character | a literary character who stays basically uncharged throughout a work |
| style | a way the story is written |
| symbol | representing soemthing else |
| irony | what is said is not what is meant |
| protagonist | the good guy |
| antagonist | the bad guy |
| modify | make less severe of harsh or extreme |
| syntax | the gramatical of words in a sentence |
| noun | person, place, thing |
| adjective | pertaining to or functioning as an adjective |
| verb | a word taht represents an action or a state of being |
| metaphor | to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| point of view | a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal |
| nemesis | something a person cannot conquer |