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Literary Lex.
Literary Elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A reference to a leterary, mythological, biblical, or historical person, place, or thing. | Allusion |
| The contrast between appearance and reality-usually one in which reality is the opposite from what it seems; when one thing is expected to happen or be, and the exact opposite occurs. | Irony |
| The use of any object, person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself. | Symbol |
| The use of a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. | Foreshadowing |
| An event in which the essential nature of something-a person place or object---is suddenly understood in a new way. | Epiphany |
| The background against which action takes place. | Setting |
| The quality of literary work that makes the reader uncertain about the outcome. | Suspense |
| A recurrent element in a literary work. | Motif |
| A type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over again. | Archetype |
| The writer's attitude of feeling toward a person, a thing, a place, an event or situation. | Tone |
| A central message or insight into life revealed through that literary work. | Theme |
| The perspective from which a story is told. | Point of View |
| The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. | Mood |
| A device in which words, sounds, and/or ideas are used more that once to enhance rhythem and to create empasis. | Repetition |
| Facts revealed by the author or speaker thst support the attitude or tone in the work. | Detail |
| The words or phrases a writer uses to represent person, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses. | Imagery |
| When important aspects of a story are important positions and in-depth development. | Emphasis |
| Word choice. | Diction |
| Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. | Figurative Language |
| A comparison of two words using like or as. | Simile |
| A comparison of two words not using like or as. | Metaphor |
| Writing that gives animals,inanimate objects human characteristics. | Personification |
| A play on words that are indentical or similar in sound but have sharply different meanings. | Pun |
| An accepted phras or expression having a meaning different from the literal. | Idiom |
| A form of paradox that combindes a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual espression. | Oxymoron |
| A delibrate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration. | Hyperbole |
| Struggle between two opposing forces. | Conflict |
| When a character has a problem with another character. | Character vs Character |
| Character that has a conflict with itself. | Character vs Self |
| When a character has a problem with rule of socitey. | Character vs Society |
| when a character has a problem with nature such a cold, storms, earthquakes ect. | Character vs Nature |
| When a character has a problem with something they cant do anything about. | Character vs Fate |
| Repetition of begining sounds. | Alliteration |
| A sound word. | Onomatopoeia |
| A reason that explains characters thoughts, feelings, actions, or behaviors. | Motivation |
| The central character, and focus of interest who is trying to overcome or accomplish an adversity. | Protagonist |
| The character opposing the protagonist; can be a person, idea, or force. | Antagonist |
| A character that undergoes change in actions or beliefs during the course of a strugle. | Dynamic Character |
| A character that does not grow or change throughout the story. | Static Character |
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