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Litaracry Terms

English

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Novel a long fictional story.
Nonfiction prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places.
Biography an account of a person's life, written or told by another person.
Autobiography an account of the writer's own life.
Lyric a short poem that aims at epressing a speaker's emotion or thoughts.
Fiction writing based on an author's imagination.
Short Story a brief fictional prose narrative.
Prose any writing that is neither poetry nor drama.
Poetry literature that is written in verse from.
Narrative Poem a long poem that tells a story.
Epic a long poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero.
Ballard a song that tells a story.
Essay a short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject.
Drama a story that is written to be acted out in front of an audience.
Parody a comical, exaggerated imitation of something "serious".
Satire the kind of writing that ridicules something.
Plot a series of related events.
Exposition the opening of the story, where the characters and their conflicts are usally intoduced.
Complication the second part of the plot, where most of the action occurs.
Conflict a strugle.
Internal Conflict a conflict takes place inside a character's mind.
External Conflict a struggle takes place between a character and another person.
Climax that moment in a story where the reader learns the outcome of the central conflict.
Resolution the final stage of a story.
Narrator person who tells a story.
Irony a contrast or diecrepancy between expectation and reality.
Protagonist the person who "drives" the action
Antagonist biggest opponent that the main character faces in a story
Dynamic Character a character who undergoes a change in personality as a result of the story's. events.
Static Character one who does not change much in the course of a story.
Foreshadowing the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot.
Theme the central idea of a work of literature.
Mood the attuide created in the reader.
Simile a comparison that uses like, as, or than.
Setting the time and place of a story or play.
Characterization process of revaling the personality of a charcter in a story.
1st person p-o-v one of the character in the story will be talking to us, using "I".
3rd person omniscient the narrator is outside the story, & knows all characters' thoughts.
3rd person limited the narrator will foucs in on the thoughts and feelings of just one character.
Point of Veiw the vantage point from which the writer has chosen to tell the story.
Inderect Characterization a writer gives evidence of someone's personality, but the reader must use his/her own judgment.
Direct Characterization the writer tells us exactly what kind of person someone is.
Symbol an object that represents more than itself (such as a cross or a logo)
Metaphor a comparison of two unalike objects.
Verbal Irony someone says one thing but really means something completly differnet.
Tone the attuiude of a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
Dramatic Irony occurs when the audience is aware of something that a character is not aware of.
Situational Irony occurs where there is a contrast between what you expect to happen and what does happen.
Personification giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
Flashback a scene in a story that interrupts the prsenr action to tell what happened at an earlier time.
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