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GHS Literature Terms
Literature terms and descriptions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The reason a character behaves a certain way—why he or she does what he or she does | Motivation |
| The main character in a story for whom the reader is rooting—is trying to accomplish a goal | Protagonist |
| The character in a story who attempts to prevent the main character from achieving his or her goal | Antagonist |
| The writer tells the reader plainly what a character is like. | Direct Characterization |
| The writer gives clues about what a character is like; the reader uses inference to judge what the character is like. | Indirect Characterization |
| The people in a story, poem, or play | Characters |
| A character that has only one or two character traits, which can be described in one or two words | Flat Character |
| A character that is fully developed with many different characteristics | Round Character |
| A character who does not change during the course of a story | Static Character |
| A character who serves as a contrast to the main character | Foil |
| A character who seems to live and breathe, who grows and changes during the course of a story | Dynamic Character |
| The series of events in a story | Plot |
| Created when a person or outside force prevents the main character from achieving his or her goal | External Conflict |
| Any scene that presents events that happened before the main time frame of a story | Flashback |
| The part of a story in which the basic situation is outlined and the characters and main conflict are introduced | Exposition |
| The chain of events that takes place as the main character struggles to achieve his or her goal | Rising Action |
| The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in a story | Foreshadowing |
| The feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about what is going to happen next | Suspense |
| The point of highest emotional intensity in a story; sometimes the point at which we learn the outcome of the conflict | Climax |
| Events following the climax in which any remaining issues are resolved | Resolution |
| A struggle within a character’s own heart or mind | Internal Conflict |
| The atmosphere of the story | Mood |
| A single word or phrase consisting of sensory details (that appeal to one of our senses—sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell) | Image |
| The messageThe moralThe meaningThe lesson about human life | Theme |
| A centuries-old poetic form consisting of 14 lines following a regular meter and a regular rhyme pattern. | Sonnet |
| A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line | Meter |
| The basic building block of meter—consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllable. | Foot |
| An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | Iamb |
| Five iambs in a line of poetry | Iambic pentameter |
| The speaker’s attitude—toward a subject or toward an audience | Tone |
| Poem built on a list of images | Catalog poem |
| A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using “like,” “as,” “than,” or “resembles” | Metaphor |
| Metaphor that directly compares two things by the use of a verb such as is | Direct Metaphor |
| Metaphor that implies or suggests a comparison between the two things without stating it directly | Implied metaphor |
| A metaphor in which human qualities are given to something that is not human | Personification |
| Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry | End rhyme |
| The use of words that sound like what they mean | Onomatopoeia |
| A metaphor that is developed over several lines or even a whole poem | Extended Metaphor |
| Something that stands for itself and something else | Symbol |
| Word choice | Diction |
| Dictionary definition of a word | Denotation |
| All the meanings, associations, or emotions suggested by a word | Connotation |
| The voice talking to us in the poem | Speaker |
| Repetition of sound patterns | Rhythm |
| Analyzing a poem to show its meter—marking stressed and unstressed syllables | Scanning a poem |
| The repetition of a sound | Rhyme |
| The words repeat some sounds but they are not exact echoes. | Approximate rhyme |
| Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry | End rhyme |
| A regular pattern of rhyme | Rhyme scheme |
| Poetry that is free of regular meter | Free verse |
| Rhyme that occurs inside a line of poetry | Internal rhyme |
| The use of words that sound like what they mean | Onomatopoeia |
| Repetition of the same consonant sound in several words | Alliteration |
| Repetition of the same vowel sound over several words | Assonance |
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