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ILMS Lit Terms 1-15
Lit Terms 1-15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | a story or poem with talking animals that teaches a lesson or moral |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | an implied or direct reference to ideas, books, people or things with which the reader is already familiar |
| antagonist | one who opposes; often a villain |
| apostrophe | speaking to someone absent or something nonhuman as if it were present, alive, or able to speak |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds when consonant sounds are unlike |
| characterization | the way the author develops the characters |
| characters | people or animals in a story |
| climax | the most exciting part of the story; where the conflict is resolved |
| conflict | the basic struggle between central elements in fiction |
| crisis | the point when the plot reaches its turning point; the height of the conflict |
| denouement | the solution, the final outcome |
| dialogue | conversation characters use |
| exposition | introduction of material necessary for understanding the story; characters and setting are introduced |
| fiction | a category of literature that has imaginary characters and events |
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