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Literary Terms
Acadimect Arichement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A literary work with two or more levels of meaning - one literal level and one or more |
| Alliteration | The repetition of similar consonant sounds , usually close together in a group of words |
| Allusion | A reference to a well known person place event literary work or work of art |
| Anecdote | A brevity story about an interesting amusing or strange event. Told to entertain or make a point. |
| Antagonist | Opposes the main character. Sometimes called a villain. |
| Apostrophe | To address a dead or absent person as if he or she were person or to address an inanimate object as if live |
| Appropriate rhyme | Rhyme in which the final sounds of the words similar but not identical EX: Stone- one |
| Archetype | A descriptive detail plot patter Character type or theme that recurs in many cultures. The epic and tragic here, the villain , the down trodden individual , loss constant sounds. |
| Aside | Words spoken by a charter in a play that are not intended for other character on the stage to hear |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllable with out the repetition of similar consonant |
| Autobiography | A person written account of hid or her own life |
| Ballad | A short musical narrative poem |
| Black verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Characterization | The personality a character displays. The means by which an author reveals personality. |
| Character | Person , animal , or thing in a literary work |
| Climax | the point of greatest emotional interest intensity or suspense in a narrative |
| Comedy | Drama in which all conflict are resolved and the character are happy |
| Conceit | A unusual and surprising comparison between two very different things. May be a brief metaphor or an extended metaphor that forms the framework of an entire. |
| Concrete poetry | Poem in which the word of the poem are arranged in the shape of the subject |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces |
| Connotation | The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse |
| Consonance | The repletion of consonant sounds especially at the end of stressed syllables but without the repetition of similar vowel sounds |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Denotation | The literal or dictionary meaning of a word |
| Denouement | Anything that happens after the resolution of a plot. Trying up of loose ends |
| Descriptive writing | Writing that give a picture of the subject through imagery that appeals to the senses |
| Dialogue | Conversation between two charcoal in a literary work |
| Diction | A writer choice of words particularly for clarity effectiveness and precision |
| Direct Characterization | The author reveals directly the character and personality traits of a character by stating directly what he wants the reader to know |
| Drama | A story acted out usually on stage by actor and actress who take the parts of specific characters |
| Dramatic Dialogue | A poem which contains character talking to each other |
| Dramatic irony | when the audience knows information that the character on stage in a play do not know |
| Dramatic monologue | a poem in which one character speaks to one ot more listeners. the listeners may be implied |
| Dynamics character | Character who experience some change personality or attitude from the beginning to the end of a story |
| Elegy | A solemn and formal lyric poem about death |
| Epic | A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero |
| Epiphany | A moment of revelation or insight in which a character recognized some truth about himself herself another character or life in general |
| Epithet | A word Combination that describes and characterize a person or thing in order to help the reader or listener recognize and remember the person or thing |
| Essay | A piece of prose writing that deals with its subject briefly and from a personal point of view |
| Exposition | Basic information at the beginning of a story that includes character and background information essential to the story |
| Expository writing | Writing the exposes information or presents facts |
| Extended metaphor | A metaphor that is Extended throughout the poem |
| External conflict | Character struggles against an outside force |
| Fable | A brief story usually with animal characters the teaches a lesson or moral |
| Falling action | All events leading to the resolution of the central conflict |
| Fantasy | Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life |
| Farce | An exaggerated comedy that replies of improbable situation physical humor and broad wit |
| Fiction/Narrative Fiction | Writing from the author imagination rather than fact. Prose writing that tells about imaginary character and events |
| Figurative Language | Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. It allows the reader to use imagination in understanding |
| First person point of | the reader sees ans knows only what the narrator sees and knows. The narrator in limited |
| View | To his own involvement or experience |
| Flashback | An interruption in the sequence of events to remember something of the past |
| Flat Character | Character who have only one or two sides representing only one or two personality traits |
| Foil | A Character who is contrasted with another and is a direct opposite thus intensifying the impact of that other character |
| Folk Tale | A story composed orally and then passed from person to person by word of mouth |
| Foreshadow | The use or hint or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come |
| Formal essay | Essay that is serious in tone tightly organized and generally objective |
| Framework story | A story that contains a story within it |
| Free verse | Poetry that has no fix meter or pattern and depends on natural speech rhythm |
| Genre | Any division or type of literature:poetry, prose, and drama |
| Haiku | Three line poem usually about nature with 17 syllable |
| Hero/Heroine | Character whose actions are inspiring or noble. Often heroes struggle to overcome foes or escape difficult situation |
| Hyperbole | A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of the five senses |
| Indirect Characterization | The Character and personality traits of a character are revealed |
| Informal essay | essay that ranges freely over the subject and allows the reader to see into the writers personality |
| Internal conflict | Character struggles against himself |
| Internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line |
| Irony | the general name given to literary technique that involve surprising intersecting or amusing contradiction |
| Limerick | A five line poem. The first second and fifth lines rhyme and have three beats. The third and fourth lines rhyme and have two beats. The poem are usually silly and humorous |
| Lyric poetry | Poetry that expresses a speaker personal thought or feeling |
| main character | most important character in a literary work |
| Metaphor | Implied comparison between two unlike things |
| Metonymy | Figure of speech that substitute something closely related for the thin actually meant |
| Meter | Arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern |
| Minor/Secondary character | character who is not as important as a major or main character |
| Monologue | Talk or reading presented by one person uninterrupted speech delivered by one character in a play to other character who are at least present in not listening |
| Mood/Atmosphere | The feeling that literary work gives its reader ; detail of the setting are especially effective in establishing this |
| Moral | a lesson taught by a literary work . usually in a fable the moral is directly stated at the end |
| Motit | A main element idea theme detail or image that is repeated throughout a piece of lia |
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