English 2 Final Literary Terms
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- the introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later
- Foreshadowing
- the incidents, actions, and events that make up a story or play
- Plot
- The main idea of a story, novel, play, etc. a Theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, settings, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. The message about life the author is sending to the reader or t
- Theme
- The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
- Symbolism
- Irony
- a device by which a writer expresses a meaning contradictory to the one stated
- the struggle within the plot between opposing forces. The protagonist engages in the conflict with the antagonist, which may take the form of a character, society, nature, or an aspect of the protagonist’s personality.
- Conflict
- (setting) A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude, the emotional response of a reader to a work, it reflects the feelings of the writer
- Atmosphere (mood)
- a recurring object or idea that appears repeatedly throughout a literary work
- Motif
- a scene that happened before that relates to what is happening in the present
- Flashback
- the set up of incidents, actions, and events that make up a story or play
- Plot Structure
- a narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, which provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. Exposition explains what has gone on before, the relationships between characters, the development of
- Exposition
- Rising Action
- The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax
- Occurs when the forces of the protagonist and the antagonist meet head-on.
- Climax
- the problems that must be solved of the trials that must be faced
- Falling Action
- when the conflict is resolved in the story
- Resolution
- the writer's attitude toward his or her subject
- the emotional response of a reader to a work
- Mood
- the emotional response of a reader to a work, it reflects the feelings of the writer