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Comp Lit Terms 1
Literary Terms for test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told |
| 1st Person Narration | the narrator is a character, referring to himself/herself as "I" |
| 3rd Person Omniscient Narration | story is told as if it were seen through the eyes of a "god," narrator knows all, sees all, and knows the future of the story |
| 3rd Person Limited Narration | narrator's knowledge is limited to what possible one character thinks, and some beyond the scope of the character's knowledge |
| 3rd Person Objective | narrator reports story w/ no insight to thoughts, "fly on the wall" |
| Speaker | the person who is narrating the poem |
| Persona | assumed identity of the writer, or of the fictional "I" |
| Tone | the expression of the author's attitude toward his/her subject and the reader |
| Diction | the writer's choice of words |
| Denotation | a word's literal meaning, exclusive of images or feeling it evokes |
| Connotation | the implications or suggestions evoked by a word |
| Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration |
| Understatement | presenting something as less significant than it is |
| Metaphor | comparing two dissimilar things w/o the use of like or as |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
| Alliteration | the close repetition of consonant sounds |
| Assonance | the close repetition of vowel sounds |
| Meter | regular rhythmic patterns in poetry, measure in units called feet |
| Stress | the emphasis placed on a syllable |
| Feet | a group of syllables containing one stressed syllable |
| Rhyme | the repetition of identical sounds |
| Stanza | a group of lines that form a division of a poem |
| Dramatic Monologue | a character's speech to an unseen listener that reveals the dramatic situation and the speaker's true nature |
| Sonnet | a verse containing 14 lines and a complicated rhyme scheme |
| Free Verse | a poem with no rhyme or meter |
| Plot | the events of a narrative or play, and the organization of those events |
| Setting | the time and place at which a literary work occurs |
| Conflict | the opposition of two forces or characters |
| Climax | the turning point in the plot when the conflict is resolved |
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sharpie1995
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