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Literature Study TMS
Terms Needed for Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together |
| Allusion | a reference to a statement, person, place or event from literature, art, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or popular culture. |
| Analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike |
| Anecdote | Brief personal story used to illustrate a point |
| Antagonist | The "villain" in the story |
| Autobiography | Story of a person's life written by him- or herself |
| Ballad | Narrative poem that tells a story, usually a sad story |
| Biography | The story of someone's life written by someone else |
| Character | A) The person, animal, or personified object in a literary work 2) A person's general way of being |
| Flat Character | Not much is known about them. Are used mainly to move the story along |
| Static Character | unchanged from the beginning of the story to the end |
| Characterization | The way a writer reveals the personality of a character |
| Direct v Indirect Characterization | Direct - The author tells us what a character is like Indirect - The author shows us, through action or dialogue, the character's personality |
| Climax | The point of the story that creates the greatest suspense or interest. It is this point in the plot that the outcome of the conflict will be decided |
| Conflict | The main struggle or problem in a story |
| Internal Conflict | Character against himself |
| Connotation | a meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word, other than just its definition |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word |
| Dialect | Way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain area |
| Dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters; actual spoken words of a character as denoted by the quotation marks |
| Hyperbole | Overstatement, usually for comic effect |
| Fable | Brief story containing a moral, usually with talking animals |
| Fiction | Made up |
| Figurative Language | Word or phrase that describes one things in terms of another things. Not meant to be taken as literally true |
| Flashback | Interruption of present to show what happened in the past |
| Folk Tale | Story that has no known author and was passed by word of mouth |
| Foreshadowing | Clues about what will happen later in the story |
| Free Verse | Poetry with no set rhyme scheme or meter |
| Historical Fiction | Fictional story based on actual past events or historical era |
| Idiom | Expression in a particular language that means something different than the literal meaning |
| Imagery | Language that appeals the the senses. Sensory details |
| Irony | Contrast between what is expected and what is true |
| Round Character | Fully filled character. Much is known about their personalities and who they are |
| Legend | Story of extraordinary deeds passed from one generation to the next |
| Limerick | Five-lined humorous poem with aabba rhyme scheme |
| Lyric Poem | Poem that expresses feelings and thoughts instead of telling a story |
| Metaphor | Direct comparison of two unlike things |
| Extended Metaphor | Metaphor developed over several lines |
| Meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Mood | overall feeling of a work of literature |
| Motivation | The reasons a character behaves a certain way |
| Myth | Story that explains something about the world and usually involves gods or other supernatural forces |
| Narrative Poem | Tells a story in poetry form |
| Objective View | Gives both sides of an argument; presents all the facts one-sided view of an argument |
| Ode | Lyric poem that is written in praise of someone or something |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning |
| Parallel Episodes | Repeated elements of the plot |
| Personification | Giving human-like characteristics to a non-human thing |
| Plot | Series of related events; what happens in the story |
| Point of View | The vantage point from which the story is told |
| Dynamic Characters | goes through much personal growth or change during the course of the story |
| Prose | Any writing that is not poetry |
| Protagonist | Main character in the story |
| Pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word or words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| Refrain | repeated sound, word, phrase, or group of words |
| Resolution | part of the plot where all the loose ends are tied up |
| Rhyme | sounds alike |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyme within a line |
| Approximate (Slant) Rhyme | Sounds are close (cat, cut) |
| Eye Rhyme | Looks like they should rhyme but don't sound the same (rogue, monologue) |
| Rhythm | musical quality created by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Satire | writing that ridicules something, often in order to bring about change |
| Setting | The time and place of a story |
| Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using a comparison word (like, as, than, resembles, etc) |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-lined poem, usually written in iambic pentameter |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-lined poem written in very strict meter and rhyme scheme |
| Speaker | Narrator of a poem |
| Stanza | a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; the "paragraph" of a poem |
| Style | The way a certain author uses language |
| Subplot | lesser set of related events in a story |
| Suspense | The uncertainty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next in a story |
| Symbol | Something (usually concrete) that stands for something (usually abstract) other than itself |
| Tall-Tale | exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue |
| Theme | The idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject |
| Understatement | a statement that says less than what is actually meant |
| Paraphrasing | retelling something in your own words |
| Summary | Telling the main events of the plot of a story |
| Biased View | one-sided view of an argument |
| Verbal Irony | What is said is the opposite of what is true. Sarcasm is one type of this form of irony |
| Situational Irony | What happens is the opposite of what is expected |
| Dramatic Irony | The audience knows something the characters do not |
| Third-Person Limited POV | narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| First-Person POV | narrator is a character in the story. |
| Second-Person POV | "You" is the main character |
| Exact Rhyme | Rhymes exactly (dog, hog) |
| External Conflict | Character against another character, forces of nature, or society as a whole |
| End Rhyme | Rhymes at the end of a line |
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