Freshman English Literary Terms
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- the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words
- alllieraton
- usually the princeipal chareacter in aopposition to the opposing character protagonish of a narrative or drama
- antagonist
- main character in a narrative or dramma
- protagonist
- a writers or speackers choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences
- diction
- coversation, an episode, or an event that happened vefore the beginning of a story
- flashback
- a writer use of hints or clues to indacate events and stiuations that will occur later on in the story
- foreshawdowing
- a figure of speech in which the trusth is exaggeratied for empasis or for humorus effects
- hyperoble
- decriptive words and pharases that re create sensory esperances for the readers
- imagery
- a comparison w/o using the words like or as
- metaphor
- the feeling or atmoshpere that the writer creates for the reader
- mood
- place where the narritive ro drama takes place
- setting
- a compaasion using like or as
- simile
- a person,place, oan activity,or an object that stands for something besides itself
- symbol
- attitude a writer takes toward a subject
- tone
- writers unique use of language that allows a reader to hear a hjman personality in his or her writing
- voice
- sequence of events ina story
- plot
- methods taht a writer uses to develop characterization
- character
- main idea in a work of literature
- theme
- special kind of contrast between apperance and reality-usally one that is which reality is the opposite from what it seems
- irony
- the plot of a sotry always invoves some sort of struggle between opposing forces
- conflict
- the accurance of a simialaror idnetical sounds of 2 or more words
- ryhme