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Literary Terms Acc8
Descries the terms needed to know for ACC8 English.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antagonist | a froce working against the protagonist |
| character | a person an animal or an imaginary creature that takes part in a story |
| characterization | the creation and development of a character |
| climax | the turning point of the story, high point, truth is revealed, most suspenseful part |
| conflict | a struggle or problem that triggers an action-four main types: person vs person, person vs self, person vs nature, person vs society |
| connotation | thoughts, feelings, and images associated with a word |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| dialect | words spoken in a specific way that represent a particular place or group of people |
| dialogue | the words that a character says, usually a conversation |
| dynamic character | a character that changes because of what happens to him or her in the story |
| exposition | the first part of the plit that explains the backgroud and often introduces the characters and setting |
| falling action | the part of the story that follows the climax, conflicts are beginning to resolve, events are leading to the resolution |
| figurative language | the use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas that creat pictures in the reader's mind or language that maes comparisons |
| first person pov | a character tells the story using words like I or me |
| flashback | interrruption of the story where the reader is taken back to an earlier time |
| flat character | "stereotypical" characters with only one or two personality traits |
| foreshadowing | clues that hint or suggest what will happen later in the story |
| genre | a category of literary work |
| hyperbole | a deliberate expression |
| idiom | expressions that mean something different from what it says |
| imagery | language that appeals to the five senses |
| irony | when something happens that is the opposite of what might be expected |
| metacognition | the awareness of you own thinking process |
| metaphor | copares two unlike things without the use of the words Like or as |
| mood | the eeling a reader gets from a story |
| narrator | the person who tells the story |
| omniscient character | the speaker knows everything including the actions, motives, and thoughts of all the characters-all knowing |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| personification | human qualities are given to something that is not human |
| plot | the actions or events in a story that include: expostition, conflict, rising action climax, falling action, and the resolution of a story |
| plot line | a graphic representation used to keep track of plot events in a story |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| prose | tect written in paragraph form |
| protagonist | main characters central to the action |
| purpose | an authors reason for writing text: to entertain, persuade, or inform |
| resolution | the end of a story that occurs after the climx which establishes a new norm, the way things are going to be from then on |
| rising action | central part of the story where conflicts arise and the stage is set for the climax |
| round character | complex characters wth detailed personalities like "real" people have |
| schema | info you know based on your background knowledge and experiences |
| setting | the time and place of a story |
| similie | compares two unlike things using the words like or as |
| static character | a character that stays the same throughout the story |
| style | the authors way of writing, includes word choice, sentence structure, and figurative language |
| subplot | a secondary story in fictional text |
| symbolism | a deivce in literature where an object represents an idea |
| theme | the message or main idea the author tries to portray |
| third person | an outside person tells the story from his or her own perspective |
| tone | the authors attitude towards his or her subject |
Created by:
kad1998
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