Literature Final MV
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- Extended Metaphor
- A metaphor that is extended or developed over several lines of writing or throughout an entire poem
- Dramatic irony
- the reader perceives something significant that the character misses
- Blank Verse
- poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- Suspense
- feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story or play
- Meter
- a basically regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- Antagonist
- an obstacle to the protagonist or character who is involved in the most important conflict with the protagonist
- Setting
- the time and place of a story or play
- Poetry
- A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations
- Static
- a character who remains the same or changes very little from beginning to end
- Fiction
- a literary work portraying imaginary characters and events
- Rising Action
- the portion of a story or play in which conflict intensifies, leading to the climax. (often contains many complications)
- External conflict
- person vs. person; person vs. society; person vs. nature/environment
- Flat
- a character that, having only one or two traits, is easily described and one-dimensional (like a carboard figure)
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things in which one thing becomes another without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles
- Nonfiction
- prose writing that deals with real people, events and places
- Plot
- the series of related events that make up a story
- Falling Action
- the point in a story or play following the climax in which the intensity of action or conflict diminishes and leads to the resolution.
- Conflict
- a struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces
- Local Color
- writing which represents the mannerisms, dress, speech and customs of a particular geographical region
- Prose
- literary expression not marked by rhyme or metrical regularity
- Rhythm
- a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repitition of other sound patterns
- Pun
- A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- Theme
- the central idea of a literary work
- Onomatopoeia
- the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
- Tone
- the author's attitude toward his or her subject, character or audience
- Paradox
- a statement that appears contradictory but which may be shown to contain a truth
- Personification
- Metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- Dialogue
- lines of a conversation or speech included in a literary work
- Situational Irony
- The outcome of events or the state of affairs is the opposite of what one would expect
- Symbol
- A person, place, or thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself
- Satire
- writing which ridicules society, a group, a social institution, etc., in order to reveal a weakness
- Science Fiction
- fiction of a highly imaginative or fantastic kind, generally involving some actual or projected scientific phenomenon.
- Tone
- the author's attitude toward his or her subject, character, or audience
- Exact rhyme
- repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem
- Allusion
- a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing well known from literature, history, religion, pop culture, etc.
- Irony
- a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
- Personification
- a metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
- Comedy
- a story that ends happily
- Third Person Omniscient
- the narrator knows everything about the characters and various situations
- Resolution
- the final part of a story where problems/conflicts are resolved and the story is closed
- Point of View
- the vantage point from which the writer has chosen to telly the story
- Rhyme Scheme
- the pattern of rhymes in a poem. To indicate , we use a seperate letter of the alphabet for each rhyme
- Slant rhyme
- words that do repeat some sounds but do not have exact chiming sounds
- Connotation
- All the meanings, associations or emotions that a word suggests
- Drama
- a story that is written to be acted out in front of an audience
- Monologue
- an extended speech given by one speaker
- Novel
- A long fictional story which uses all the elements of storytelling (plot, characters, setting, point of view, theme)
- Genre
- a kind of type of literature
- Climax
- the most significant and exciting moment in a plot, a turning point when the outcome is decided one way or another
- Rhyme
- generally, sounds repeated through stressed syllables
- Direct Characterization
- the author direcly explains what the character is like
- Third Person Limited
- the narrator (not character) focuses on thoughts and feelings of one of the characters
- Foil
- A character that is used to contrast another character
- Simile
- a figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 unlike things, using a term such as like, as, resembles, or than.
- Soliloquy
- An unusually long speech in which a character on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts
- Prose
- literary expression not marked by rhyme or metrical regularity
- Alliteration
- the repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together, or the repitition of consonant sounds that are similar
- Consonance
- the repetition of the same consonant sounds before and after changing vowel sounds, as in "tick-tock" or "step-stop"
- Monologue
- an extended speech given by one speaker
- Assonance
- the repetition of simliar vowel sounds enclosed in different consonant sounds
- Internal Conflict
- Person vs. Self
- Epithet
- An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing
- Internal rhyme
- rhyme inside a line of poetry, rather than at the end
- Essay
- a short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject
- First Person
- one of the charactesr tells the story ("I")
- Foreshadowing
- clues which hint at events to come in a play or story
- Tragedy
- a play, novel, etc depicting serious events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
- Exposition
- the first part of a fictional story; the part in which characters, setting and their conflict are usually introduced
- Iambic Pentameter
- a line of poetry that contains five iambs
- Epic
- a long story told in poetry relating deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of his society; 2 ways (war and journey)
- Round
- a realistic character that has many different character traits; fully developed; three-dimensional
- Denotation
- the literal, dictionary definition of a word
- Protagonist
- the main character, the one who "drives the action."
- Dynamic
- a character who changes in some important way as a result of what happens in the story. Change may involve some new knowledge or a different way of behaving or feeilng
- Verbal Irony
- words imply the opposite of what they literally mean (sarcasm)
- narrator
- one who tells the story
- Hubris
- arrogance; excessive self-pride and self-confidence, especially in reference to Greek tragic heroes whose pride led them to ignore warnings from the gods and thus invite catastrophe
- homeric simile
- a comparison/ simile except that the comparison is extended and explains heroic or epic events in terms of everyday happenings
- Sonnet
- a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has a set rhyme scheme
- Couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
- Character
- a person in a story
- Indirect Characterization
- The author shows what the character is like by presenting the character's: 1. Speech 2. Appearance 3. Inner thoughts and feelings 4. What others think or say about the character 5. Actions
- mood
- atmospher; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
- Characterization
- the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story.
- Suspense
- feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story or play
- Imagery
- language that appeals to any of the 5 senses
- Aside
- words spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another characters