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HHAIMS Literary term
HHAIMS Literary terms
Question | Answer |
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antagonist | a person who is opposed, struggles against, or competes with another |
character | an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction |
character 2nd definition | a person's nature or personality |
climax | the highest or most intense point in the development of a story |
denouement | the end, the solution of a story |
flashback | when a character looks back into the past of a story |
foreshadowing | the act of providing advance indication; a hint or suggestion given beforehand |
metaphor | a type of figurative language where something is said to be a different object (meta-change) |
narrator/narrative voice | one who tells a story through a series of events |
plot | a sequence of events in a story |
protagonist | the leading character; hero |
rising action | the events of a plot preceding the climax |
setting | the place and time that a story takes place |
simile | a figure of speech where two unlike objects are being compared using "like" or "as" |
symbol | a material object or idea that represents something else |
theme | topic or subject of a story; central idea, message, moral |
tone | author's feelings about the topic |
mood | emotions that are implied through the story |