Literary Terms 8
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- Haiku
- a japenese poem, three lines, five, seven, five syllables
- Flat Character
- is one-sided and often stereotypical
- Scene
- is a section of uninterrupted action in the act of drama
- Rhyme Scheme
- a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
- Limerick
- a humorous, rhyming, five - line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme
- Science Fiction
- elements of fiction, fantasy, and scientific fact. Many stories are set in the future
- Limited Third - Person (Point of View)
- point of view, the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feeling of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective
- Free Verse
- is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter
- Genre
- division or type of literature : Poetry, Prose, and Drama
- External Conflict
- man against man, man against nature, man against society
- Resolution
- outcome of the conflict
- Refrain
- regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or a song
- Journal
- a periodic, account of events and the writer's thoughts and feelings about those events
- Development/Plot
- sequence of cause and effect events
- Essay
- short nonfiction work about a particular subject/ informal essay, historical essay, expository essay, narrative essay, informational essay, and persuasive essay
- Fiction
- prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
- Omniscient Third - Person (Point of View)
- point of view, the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks
- Denotation
- a word is its dictionary meaning of the word
- Dynamic Character
- is one who changes or grows during the course of the work
- Fantasy
- highly imaginative that contains elements not found in the real life. include stories that involve supernatural elements
- Main or Major Character
- the most important character in a story, poem, or play
- Figurative Language
- language not meant to be taken literally
- Letters
- written communication from one person to another
- Fable
- is a brief story or poem, usually with animal characteristics, that teaches lesson, or moral
- Extended Metaphor
- several connected comparisons
- Minor Character
- is one who takes part in the action but is not the focous of attention
- Prose
- ordinary form of written language
- Conflict
- a struggle between opposing forces
- Foot
- The weak and the strong stresses are then divied by vertical lines into groups called feet
- Repetition
- is the use, more than once, of any element of language/ sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence/ is used in both prose and poetry
- Protagonist
- main character
- Round Charcter
- is fully developed and exhibits many traits---often both faults and virtues
- Setting
- time and place of the story
- Hero/Heroine
- a character whose actions are inspiring, or noble
- Concrete Poem
- is one with a shape that suggests its subject
- Exposition
- introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
- Figure Of Speech
- metaphor, personification, and simile
- simile
- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
- Irony
- the literary techniques that uses surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions
- Point of View
- perspective
- Rhyme
- the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
- Rhythm
- is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- Climax
- also called the turning point, is the hight point in the action of the plot
- Antagonist
- PROTAGONIST
- Lyric Poem
- is a highly musical that expresses the obsevations and feelings of a single speaker
- Historical Fiction
- real events, places, or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
- Images
- words or phrases that appeal to the five senses
- Drama
- is a story written to performed by actors
- Foreshadowing
- a writer's technique that gives you clues about what might happen in the future
- Connotation
- the connotation of a word is the set of ideas associated with meaning of a word
- Expository Writing
- writing that explains or informs
- Flashback
- writing technique that interups the story to tell about things in the past
- Sensory Language
- writing or speech that appeals to the five senses
- Dialogue
- is a conversation between characters
- Imagery
- mental pictures
- Poetry
- one of the three major types of literature, musical, imagery, figurative language, and special devices of sound such as rhyme
- Static Charactera
- is one who does not change
- Internal Conflict
- man against himself
- Comedy
- is a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous or satirical, and ends happily
- Legend
- is a wildly told story about the past which discusses every culture
- First - Person (Point of View)
- point of view is told by a character who uses the first person pronoun "I."
- Folk Tale
- it is a story passed down from person to person by word of mouth
- Problem
- conflict
- Character
- a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
- Dialect
- the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group