Literary Terms Word Scramble
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| Literature Terms | Meanings/Parts |
| Novel | a wrok of prose fiction at leeast 50,000 words |
| Genre | type of literature |
| Examples of Genres | novel, short story, poem, tragedy, play, epic |
| Types of characters | flat (stock flat), round, static, dynamic |
| Flat | stereotypical, minor, 1 dimensional |
| Examples of Flat Characters | Gaston, Scar, JAfar, Ursula, Nurse, Friar Laurence |
| Stock Flat examples | the villian, the nerd, the jock, the stern nun, and the mad scientists |
| Round | 3 dimensional, main complex and complicated |
| Round examples | Scout, Romeo and Juliet |
| Static | don't change |
| Static examples | Abby (Crucible and Danforth (Most Dangerous game) |
| Dynamic | characters that change throughout |
| Dynamic examples | Darth vader, Jem and Scout (TKAM) |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a story with an emphiasis on cause and affect |
| Five Parts of Plot | Expostion, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement (Resolution) |
| Exposition | introduction of antaginist adn protagonist, intro to conflict, setting, backround info presented ----- (Antaginist does not have to be person---ex. Perfect Storm, the giver, number the stars) |
| Foils | contrasting characters |
| Foil examples | Grifindor and Slythrin, Romeo and Tybalt, Abby and Elizabeth |
| Conflict | the problem |
| Common Conflicts | human vs. human, self, nature, God, technology, or supernatural |
| Setting | time, place, mood (atmosphere) |
| Rising Action | the conflict developing and moving towards the climax |
| Climax | the turning point |
| Falling Action | conflict begins to wond down |
| Denoue'ment (resolution) | conflict is solved |
| Theme | main implied insight of a literary work |
| Motfi or Rhythm | recurring word, phrase, image, or symbol that helps sonify the work and often helps develop the theme |
| Motif/ rhytm examples | jaws, harry potter |
| Pattern | the motif becomes constant or forms the structure of the work |
| Buildungsroman | growing up story |
| Buildingsroman examples | The Facts of Life, Little Women, The Brady Bunch, (Rocky) |
| Point of View | Choice of narrator in story or literature |
| Point of View Examples | 1st person (unreliable narrator), 2nd, 3rd (omniscient), 3rd (objective), 3rd (limited) |
| Foreshadowing | seeing something that might happen in the future |
| Symbol | concrete; represents something else |
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