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Literary Terms Ela
Literary Devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Narrative in which characters and setting stand for abstract ideas or moral qualites | Allegory |
| Reference to a statement, a place, an event, or a thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts | Allusion |
| Main character in fiction or drama | Protagonist |
| character that blocks the protagonist/ opponent | Antagonist |
| Reason for writing a piece Ex. Inform, Persuade, Entertain | Authors Purpose |
| Author showing favoritism for one side of an issue over another | Bias |
| doesn't change | Static Character |
| Change in some way | Dynamic Character |
| only 1 or 2 personality traits | Flat Character |
| complex and many different traits | Round Character |
| all the meaning, association, or emoions that word suggest. | Connoataion |
| literary dictionary defintion off a word | Denontation |
| writers or speaker's choice of words | Diction |
| order of words | Syntax |
| Substitution of a word to change the tone | Euphemisms |
| Scene in a movie, play short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time | Flashback |
| character who serve as a contrast to another character | Foil |