Literary Terms for Grade 9 Ontario English
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| show | Plot
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| show | Character
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| show | Flashback
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| A character or a force in conflict with a main character or protagonist | show 🗑
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| A contradiction between what happens and what is expected is? | show 🗑
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| show | Simile
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| The central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work is? | show 🗑
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| Writing or speech that is not to be taken literally is? | show 🗑
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| A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics is? | show 🗑
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| A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Does NOT use "like or as" | show 🗑
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| show | Point of View
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| show | Foreshadowing
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| show | Climax
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| A reference to a well known person, events, place, literary work, or work of art in a story or novel is? | show 🗑
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| show | Exposition
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| show | Conflict
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| Anything that stands for or represents something else is? | show 🗑
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| show | Protagonist
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| show | Setting
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| Succession of similar sounds; occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words (cool, cats) | show 🗑
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| Long narratives tracing the adventures of popular heroes | show 🗑
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| show | Genre
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| show | Lyric
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| Extended speech made by a single character | show 🗑
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| Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings | show 🗑
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| Secondary arrangement of incidents, involving not the protagonist but someone less important | show 🗑
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| show | Rising Action
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| Events in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to it's conclusion, or denouement | show 🗑
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| 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 | show 🗑
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| The use of words to create a mental picture. Often refers to a sensory experience. The pattern or collection of images within a poem. | show 🗑
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| show | Armosphere/Mood
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| show | Tone
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| show | Ballad
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| show | Free Verse
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| show | Blank Verse
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| Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllable in a line. | show 🗑
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| show | Narrative Poetry
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| A poem with one speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses thought and feeling. for example an elegy, ode, or sonnet. | show 🗑
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| show | Ode
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| A stanza of four lines. Rhyme scheme may vary: the most common rhyme scheme is abab. | show 🗑
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| show | Onomatopoeia
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| A form of Japanese poetre that states in 3 lines of five, seven, and five syllables - a clear picture designed around a distinct emotion and suggests spiritual insight. | show 🗑
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| show | Cacophony
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| When the poet employs the use of sounds that are pleasant or pleasing to the ear. May be used for effect. | show 🗑
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| show | Inciting Force
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| show | Denouement
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| The emotional and imaginative associating surrounding a word, the feeling, images, and memories that surround a word. | show 🗑
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| show | Denotation
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| The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song | show 🗑
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| show | Hyperbole
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| The quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events | show 🗑
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| a narrator who tells the story from a biased, or erroneous perspective. She or he provides inaccurate, misleading, conflicting, or otherwise questionable information, and/or misinterprets events because of personal bias, limited understanding, etc | show 🗑
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| Recurring object, concept or structure in a work of lietrature, like light and dark when speaking of good and evil | show 🗑
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| the ordinary form of spoken and written language whose unit is the sentence, rather than the line as it is in poetry | show 🗑
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| show | Allusion
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| show | Speaker
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| show | Diction
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| show | Stanza
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| The narrator tells the story and accounts for the thoughts, feelings, motives and actions of all the characters. The narrator uses the pronouns she and he. | show 🗑
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| The narrator is outside the story and tells the story through the eyes of only one character. Limited third person uses the pronouns she and he. | show 🗑
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| A character from the sotry narrates using the pronoun "I" | show 🗑
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| show | Narrative POV
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| show | Static Character
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| show | Dynamic Character
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| A character based on simple stereotypes | show 🗑
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| show | Realistic Characters
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| show | Round Characters
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| Characters that are not very developped, with one or two character traits | show 🗑
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| The techniques used to portray or describe a character (through a character’s dialogue, actions and interactions, or thoughts, as well as through what other characters say and think about him or her). | show 🗑
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| show | Internal Conflict
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| show | External Conflict
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