Literary terms to know for the CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature exam
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| show | plays are broken down into smaller units of action. Sometimes broken down further into scenes. Is similar to a chapter in a book.
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| show | the character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
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| show | words spoken by one character in a play, either directly to the audience or to another character, that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
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| Audience– | show 🗑
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| Author’s Purpose– | show 🗑
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| Catharsis– | show 🗑
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| show | an individual in a story or play.
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| Characterization– | show 🗑
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| show | a phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
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| Comic Relief– | show 🗑
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| show | a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. Without it, most plots would never go anywhere. It spurs the action of most fiction and nonfiction.
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| show | the emotion or feeling a word creates.
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| show | the literal meaning (or dictionary definition) of a word.
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| Dialect– | show 🗑
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| Dialogue– | show 🗑
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| show | a writer’s choice of words and sentence structure; may be formal or informal, literal or figurative.
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| show | a narrative (story) generated by the writer’s imagination.
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| show | creative, non-literal language that creates powerful images in the reader’s mind; includes the use of figures of speech like metaphor, simile, and personification.
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| show | the action of the story is interrupted in order to return to an event or conversation which took place before the current action of the story.
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| Folklore– | show 🗑
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| Foreshadowing– | show 🗑
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| show | words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound, sight, smell, touch, or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
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| show | the difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
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| show | the difference between what a character says and what he means.
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| show | the difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
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| Legend– | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things without using "like" or "as".
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| Mood– | show 🗑
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| show | a recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
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| Myth– | show 🗑
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| show | the person who “tells” the story.
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| show | any type of writing, either fiction or nonfiction, that is primarily concerned with relating an event or a series of events.
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| show | before the advent of education for the masses, most people did not learn how to read or write. In order to preserve their traditions, people passed their traditions (usually in the form of songs or stories) by word of mouth from generation to generation.
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| Parable– | show 🗑
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| Personification– | show 🗑
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| show | the series of events that make up a story or drama. It is the form or structure of a story.
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| Exposition— | show 🗑
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| show | as the conflict or conflicts develop and the characters attempt to resolve those conflicts, suspense builds.
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| Climax— | show 🗑
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| Falling Action— | show 🗑
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| Resolution (also called denouement)— | show 🗑
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| Point of View– | show 🗑
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| 1st Person– | show 🗑
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| show | the narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or Godlike because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels. This does not mean that the narrator shares everything with the reader.
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| Protagonist– | show 🗑
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| show | the time and place of a story or play. This is very important in establishing the mood of a story. For example, a romantic story is not likely to take place in a haunted house.
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| Simile– | show 🗑
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| Soliloquy– | show 🗑
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| Stereotype– | show 🗑
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| show | the organizational form of a literary work.
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| show | refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said; involves the use of literary techniques, word choice, and sentence structure, and sets one writer apart from another.
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| show | a tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
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| show | a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
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| show | the use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
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| Theme– | show 🗑
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