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Literary Terms
Exam Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. Writers use alliteration to give emphasis to words, to imitate sounds, and to create musical effects. |
| Allusion | A reference to a well known person or place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
| Arguement | A writing or speech that attempts to convince the reader to adopt a particular opinion or course of action. An argument is a logical way of presenting belief, conclusion, or stance. A good argument is supported with reasoning and evidence. |
| Charecterization | The act of creating and developing a character. |
| Direct Characterization | Direct characterization, an author states the character’s traits. |
| Indirect Charcaterization | Indirect characterization involves the author providing clues about a character through their words and actions. |
| Claim | The key message that the author wants to communicate about the topic. |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces. Characters in conflict form bases of stories, novels, and plays. |
| External Conflict | Main character struggles against an outside force. |
| Internal Conflict | Character in conflict with himself or herself. |
| Epic | Long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes. |
| Epic Simile | An elaborate comparison of unlike subjects. |
| Figurative Language | Writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally. It is often used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things. |
| Flashback | A flashback is a means by which authors present material that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative. Authors may include this material in a character’s memories, dreams, or accounts of past events. |
| Frame Story | A story that brackets or frames another story or group of stories. This device creates a story-within-a-story narrative structure. |
| Homeric Simile | Elaborate comparison of unlike objects. |
| In Medias Res | “In the middle of things” |
| Internal Monologue | To show a character’s thoughts with more dimension, an author uses internal monologue, a kind of conversation a character has with himself or herself. |
| First-Person Narration | When a character in a story tells the story, this is a first person narrator. |
| Third-Person Narration | When a character in a story tells the story, this is a first person narrator. |
| Myth | A traditional story, especially concerning the the early history of a civilization, or explaining a phenomenon. |
| Sensory Language | Writing or speech that uses details to appeal to one or more of the senses. |
| Tone | The tone of a literary work is the writer’s attitude to his or her audience. |
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