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short storie terms
literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| oppeses the main character.Sometimes called a villain. | Antagonist |
| persons, animails,or some things in a literary work. | characterization |
| The point of greatest emotional interest, intenisty, or supense in a narrative. | Climax |
| a struggle between oppposing forces. | conflict |
| the author reveals directly the character and personality traits of a character and personality traits of a character by standing directly what he wants the read to know. | direct |
| characters who experience some change in personality or attitude from the beginning to the end of a story | dynamic characters |
| a long narrative poem about the adventure of gods or a hero | epic |
| basic information at the beginnings of a story that includes character and background information essential to the story | expostion |
| character struggles against an outside force : Man vs. Man;Man vs. nature;Man vs. Socciety | external conflict |
| falling action | all events leading to resolution of the central conflict |
| first person point of | the reader sees and knows only what the narrator sees and knows. the narrator is limted . |
| view | to his own involvement or experience |
| flash back | gan interruption in the sequence of events to remmber something of the past. |
| flat characters | characters who have only one or two "slides" representing only one or two personality |
| foil | a character who is contrastes with another and is a direct opposite/ thus intensifying the impact of that other character |
| foreshadow | the use or hints 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 fixed meter or pattern and depends on natural speech rhythms |
| genre | any divison or type of poetry, prose,and drama. |
| haiku | three line poem, usually about natrue, with 17 syllables. frist line 5syallbles second line 7 syllables third line 5 syllables |
| hero/heroine | character whose actions are inspiring or noble. often heros struggle to overcome foes or escape difficult situation. |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement ex: i could eat a horse |
| Imagery | lanage that appeals to any sense or any combination of the five senses |
| indirect characterization | the character and personality traits of character are revealed through what the character says , thinks does and what other characters say and think about him. |
| informal essay | eassy that ranges freely over the subject and alows the reader to see into the writers personality |
| internal conflict | character struggles aginst himself man vs himself |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line. ex once upon a midnight dreary while i pondered weak and weary |
| irony | the general name given to literary techniques that invole surprising, interesting, or amusing, contradictions |
| limerick | a five line poem. the frist, second and fifth lines rhyme and have three beats. the thrid and fourth lines rhyme and have two beats. the poems are usually silly and humorous. |
| limerick poetry | poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings ex; elegy ,ode,sonnet |
| main character | most important character in a literary work (protagonist) |
| metaphor | Implied comparsion between two unlike things |
| meter | arrangement of stressted and unstressted syllables into syllables into pattern |
| metonymy | figure of speech that substitutes somtehing closely realted for the thing actually meant. ex; lend me your ear ear is meant to represent attention , not the literal body part. |
| minor/secondary character | character who is not as important as the major or main character |
| monolouge | talk or reading presented by one person uninterrupted speech delivered by one character in a play to other characters who are at least present, if not listeing |
| mood/atmoshpere | that feeling that a literary work gives its reader details of the setting are especially effective in establishing this |
| moral | a lesson taught by a literary work. ususally in fable the moral is directly stated at the end |
| motif | a mina element idea theme detail or image that is repeated throughout a piece of literature usually for emphasis |
| myth | a traditionally story unknown authorship usually with a historical basis but serving to explain some phenomenon of natrue, the orgin of man. |
| narrative hook | introduces the central conflict |
| narrative poetry | poetry that tell sin writing |
| narrator | narrative anyone who recounts a narrative either |
| ode | long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| oral tradition | the passing down of sotires |
| oxymoron | figure of speech that fuses two contradicting or opposing ideas ex:"bittersweet" |
| parable | a short narrative design to convey a moral truth |
| paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory but actually represents a truth |
| parody | a work done in imitation of another, usually in order to mock it, but sometimes just in fun |
| personification | a figure or speech in which an animal, object, natural force, or an idea is given personality |
| persuasive writing | writing that is meant to influence a person to change his or her ideas or actions |
| plot | the sequence of related events in a literary work |
| plot diagram | narrative hook, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, denouement. |
| poetry | writing which combines language,imagery, and sound to crate a special emotional effect |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a narrative is told |
| prose | all forms of written or spoken expression without regular rhythm |
| protagonist | sometimes called the main character of a piece of literature |
| pun | play on words involves a word or phrase that has two different meanings, or it may involve using two different words or phrases with the same sound |
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