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literary terms123
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Question | Answer |
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protagonist | person, place, event, or object that if removed from the story, the story never takes place. |
antagonist | character in direct conflict with the protagonists. |
characterization | the method the author uses to acquant the reader with character. he can do this through 4 methods. |
dialogue | conversation between characters |
flashback | interruption to show what happend at an earlier time.This is done to provide background info |
foreshadowing | authors use of hints or clues about events which will happen later in the narrative |
irony | contrast between what is expected or appears to be, & what actually occurs. |
verbal irony | contrast of saying the opposite of what is meant. |
irony of situation | based on th e difference between the way things work out and what is expected to happen or appears appropriate. |
irony of tone | extends verbal irony to include lengthy passahes in which an author expresses and attitude opposite to what he feels. |
point of veiw (PoV) | authors' choice of narrator for his story. |
first person PoV | narrator is a character in the story revealing his own thoughts & feelings. |
third person PoV | narrator is an outside who reports only what he sees & hears. |
omniscient PoV | narrator is all-knowing outsider who can enter th emind of 1 or more characters. |
satire | author ridicules the voice of man in hopes of bringing about a change. |
symbolism | person, place, event, or object that has a meaning unto itself but suggests other meanings as well |
plot | significant pattern of action in a short story, novel, or play. Usually involves one or more specific comflicts either internal or external. |
conflict | the struggle which rises from the 2 opposites force a plot. |
internal conflict | problem w/ the character has w/ himself |
external conflict | problem b/w 2 characters or character and the elements. |
theme | underlying meaning or general truth about life in a story. |
setting | where the story takes place. |
inference | reasonable & intellegent conclusion drawn from hints provided by the author. |
tone | mood of a workof literature. |
climax | highest pt. of interst in a work of literature. |
allusion | refernce to a preson, place, event, or artistic work that the author expects the reader to rconginize. |
assonance | "vowel rhyme" |
alliteration | "initial rhyme" repiptiation of initial sounds of words |
blank verse | unrhymed iamic pentameter |
free verse | poety of any legnth & of no particular form |
cliche | overused phrase |
connatation | associations, usually really emotional, 1 has a w/ a word |
denotaion | dictionary definition of a word |
description | used to create the physical world in which the story's action & dialoge take place |
dialect | distinctive variation of a language that is spoken by ppl. in a certianregion or ppl. from a particular social class. |
local color | use in writing of the local setting, dialect, customs, & attitudes typical of a region. |
limerck | five-line light verse poem |
elegy | rather long poem that mourns the death of a friend, public figure, or passin of a way of life. |
figure of speech | expression that uses words in ways different from their literal meanings. |
simile | comparision of 2 things that are not alike by using the words like & as |
metaphor | makes a direct comparision b/w 2 dissimiliar things |
hyperbole | figure of speech in which the author uses international exageration to make a pt. |
interior monolouge | deivice in which authors let you "get inside a charaters head so you can hear" what hes thinking. |
stream of concious | method of narrative fiction that attempts to recreate the chaotic flow of thoughts in a character's mind. |