WGU-Literary Terms & Conventions Mod. 3 & Fiction Mod. 6
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| show | Succession of similar sounds; occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words (cool, cats)
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| show | Repeating the sound of a vowel; slows the reader down & focuses attention (all, awful)
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| show | Moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life is greatly altered
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| show | Short poem expressing the thoughts & feelings of a single speaker (first person)
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| show | Element that recurs significantly throughout a narrative; can be an image, idea, theme, situation, or action
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| show | Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings
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| show | Attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it (crash, bang, pitter-patter)
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| Persona | show 🗑
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| show | Time & place of literary work; includes climate, social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants
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| Novel | show 🗑
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| Nonfiction | show 🗑
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| show | Genre depicting a youth who struggles toward maturity, forming a worldview or philosophy of life
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| Epistolary Novel | show 🗑
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| show | Presents the life of a likable scoundrel who is at odds with respectable society; rarely has a tight plot, loose chronological order
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| show | Secondary arrangement of incidents, involving not the protagonist but someone less important
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| show | Unique arrangement of events that the author has made
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| show | Opening portion of a narrative or drama; scene set, protagonist introduced, author discloses background information
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| Conflict | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when ignorance gives way to knowledge; revelation of some fact not known before or a person's true identity
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| show | Part of play or narrative, including the exposition, in which events start moving toward a climax
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| show | Point when crucial action, decision, or realization must be made marking the turning point or reversal of the protagonist's fortune
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| show | Moment of greatest intensity in a story which occurs toward the end; often takes form of a decisive confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist
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| show | Events in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to it's conclusion, or denouement
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| Protagonist | show 🗑
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| Antagonist | show 🗑
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| show | Central character in a narrative
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| show | Character whose qualities or actions are in stark contrast to those of another character, usually the protagonists; used to convey or develop protagonist's character
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| show | Known by some outstanding trait or traits, require little detailed portraiture
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| show | Complex character who is presented in depth & detail in a narrative; change significantly during course of narrative
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| show | All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work; depends on characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative language
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