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WGU-LCC1: Lit Terms
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Succession of similar sounds; occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words (cool, cats) |
| Assonance | Repeating the sound of a vowel; slows the reader down & focuses attention (all, awful) |
| Connotation | An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal dictionary definition |
| Denotation | The literal, dictionary meaning of a word |
| Epic | Long narratives tracing the adventures of popular heroes |
| Epiphany | Moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life is greatly altered |
| Genre | Conventional combination of literary form & subject matter; implies a preexisting understanding between the artist and the reader about the purpose & rules of the work |
| Lyric | Short poem expressing the thoughts & feelings of a single speaker (first person) |
| Monologue | Extended speech made by a single character |
| Motivation | What a character in a story or drama wants; the reasons an author provides for a character's actions |
| Motif | Element that recurs significantly throughout a narrative; can be an image, idea, theme, situation, or action |
| Narrative | Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings |
| Onomatopoeia | Attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it (crash, bang, pitter-patter) |
| Persona | Latin for mask; fictitious character created by author to always be the narrator |
| Setting | Time & place of literary work; includes climate, social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants |
| Novel | An extended work of fictional prose narrative; more characters, more varied scenes, and broader coverage of time |
| Fiction | Name for stories not entirely factual, but least partially shaped, made up, imagined |
| Nonfiction | Author presents actual people and events in story form |
| Apprenticeship Novel | Genre depicting a youth who struggles toward maturity, forming a worldview or philosophy of life |
| Epistolary Novel | Contains letters by only one character; often they contained letters by several of the characters in the book |
| Picaresque Novel | Presents the life of a likable scoundrel who is at odds with respectable society; rarely has a tight plot, loose chronological order |
| Novella Short | novel; mainly describes the size of a narrative |
| Subplot | Secondary arrangement of incidents, involving not the protagonist but someone less important |
| Plot | Unique arrangement of events that the author has made |
| Exposition | Opening portion of a narrative or drama; scene set, protagonist introduced, author discloses background information |
| Foreshadowing | Suggestions of what is to come later; created through imagery, dialogue, diction, events or actions |
| Conflict | Central struggle between two or more forces in a story;some person or thing that prevents the protagonist from reaching their goals |
| Recognition | Occurs when ignorance gives way to knowledge; revelation of some fact not known before or a person's true identity |
| Rising Action | Part of play or narrative, including the exposition, in which events start moving toward a climax |
| Crisis | Point when crucial action, decision, or realization must be made marking the turning point or reversal of the protagonist's fortune |
| Climax | Moment of greatest intensity in a story which occurs toward the end; often takes form of a decisive confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist |
| Falling Action | Events in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to it's conclusion, or denouement |
| Denouement | Resolution or conclusion of a literary work as plot complications are unraveled after climax |
| Protagonist | Central character who is not especially brave or virtuous |
| Antagonist | Most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist |
| Hero | Central character in a narrative |
| Antihero | Protagonist who is lacking in one or more of conventional qualities attributed to a hero |
| Foil | Character whose qualities or actions are in stark contrast to those of another character, usually the protagonists; used to convey or develop protagonist's character |
| Stock | Character Known by some outstanding trait or traits, require little detailed portraiture |
| Flat Character | Character with only one outstanding trait; rarely central and based on stock character |
| Round Character | Complex character who is presented in depth & detail in a narrative; change significantly during course of narrative |
| Style | All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work; depends on characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative language |
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