Lit. Terms-English Midterm Exam
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- Character
- any person in a story or any entity in a story that behaves as if it is a person
- Round character
- multi-faceted and compex
- flat charcter
- one distinguishing characteristic and only exists to advance the plot
- static character
- remain unchanged through the story
- Characterization
- an author creates a character (speech,appearnce, though, actions)
- indirect
- discribing characters through the speech and throught of others characters
- Direct
- narrator or author provides information about the character
- protagonist
- main character
- antagonist
- the person or force who acts against the protagonist
- foil
- character that serves as an opposite for a main character
- allusion
- referance to person, place, thing, or idea that the author assumes the reader will be familiar with
- symbol
- an item that represents itself or a concept larger than itself
- irony
- any differance between appearance and reality
- sarcasm
- when u say one thing but you been another(intention)
- situational irony
- when it seems that things are going to turn out one way and they turn out another
- Dramatic irony
- when the audience or reader knows info. that the main character does not know
- cosmic irony
- when you have come to believe that you are invincible and the universe needs to five you a reality check
- genre
- types of luterature(fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays,folk tales)
- poetry
- generally identified b/c it has stanzas
- drama
- identified by dialouge tags
- monologue
- one person delivering an extended speech
- aside
- a characte speaks directly to the audience
- dialogue
- conversation between characters
- dialect
- speech that is specific to a region or groups of people
- diction
- word choice
- tone
- the writter's attitude
- style
- the way the author writes
- denotation
- dictionary meaning of a word
- connotation
- cultural meaning
- locale
- place
- setting
- time and place
- milieu
- time, place, and social or cultural values
- effect
- the overall impact of a work upon the reader
- theme
- what is the story about?
- conflict
- any problem in the story
- mood
- the atmosphere created within the story
- exposition
- the background info. required to get the story started and where the major conflict is introduced
- rising action
- where the confluct beomes more complicated
- climax
- the point of the story viewed with the greatest emotional intensity. turning point
- falling action
- anyhting after the climax but before resolution
- resolution
- how the story is resolved
- simile
- a compaison using like or as
- metaphor
- comparospn between two items where one item beomces that other
- personification
- investing inanimate objects with human emotions
- hyperbole
- exaggeration for serious or comic effect
- understatement
- saying less that what you actually mean
- oxymoron
- combining two opposites to create a new meaning or effect
- onomatopoeia
- words that represent sounds
- aupphemism
- a glossing word, phrase, or idea to show emphasis
- metonymy
- a complex metaphr where an item associated w/ the object comes to represent the whole
- synecdoche
- a complex metaphor where a part f the object comes to represent wht whole
- anthropomorphism
- like personification but giving multiple traits
- pathetic fallacy
- attributing human emotions to non human objects
- syntax
- the word structure of a sentence
- inversion
- flipping the normal syntax of a sentace
- anagram
- a king of wordplay
- analogy
- a comparison between two dissimilar objects to point out how they are ssinilar
- antithesis
- using ideas in opposition
- epithet
- a descriptive phrase
- alliteration
- repetition of the 1st consonant sounds in words that are near one antoher
- consonance
- repetition of the ending vowel sound
- euphony
- language that is intended to be pleasent sound to the eat
- cacophony
- languafe that is intedned to be harsh sounding to the ear
- rhyme
- repetition of identical ir similar sounds
- rhyme scheme
- using letters you mark out the pattern of a rhyme
- internal rhyme
- where a word within a line of poetry as well oa the final word of that line rhymes
- end rhyme
- where the end of the liens ryme
- stanza
- a group of lines of peotry
- tragedy
- where the main character(s) dies
- flashback
- a brak in the chronological sequence of the plot to reveal envents that have happened in the past
- flashforwar
- a break in the chronological sequence of the plot to reveal evens that will occur in the future
- foreshadowing
- casting light on future events
- imagery
- using words to create pictures foir the reader using the five senses
- motif
- repetition of a word, idea, or image to express a theme
- plot
- selectively revealin info in action within a narrative to create meaning
- Point of view
- who's speacking? 1st, 2nd, 3rd person
- omniscient
- all knowing
- limited imniscient
- perspective is gernerally limited between one to three characters about those characters your have full access as dictated by you to internal and external behaviors
- aphorism
- bried, witty remark
- pun
- play on words
- stream of onsciousness
- attempt in narrative to mimic the thoughts, structure of the human brain
- negative capability
- ability of the reader or character or both to follow a narrative without knowing what is going to occur
- autobiography
- writting about yourself
- biography
- account of a person's life(written by someone else)
- letters
- finding out stuff through the letters of some to someone else
- journal
- day to day accounts of a person
- memoir
- CONSTRUCTION OF A CERTAIN segment of someone's life
- nobella
- 51-149 pages
- novel
- 150+ pages
- persona
- personality that one adopts