Literature Terms - English 9
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- Allusion
- a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing well known
- Character
- a person in a story
- protagonist
- the main character
- flat
- a character that is easily described
- characterization
- the process of revealing the personality of a character in the story
- conflict
- struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces
- connotation
- all the meanings, or emotions a word suggests
- denotation
- the dictionary meaning of a word
- flashback
- a remembrance of an earlier part of the story in the current part
- foreshadowing
- clues which hint events to come
- imagery
- language that appeals to any of the senses
- irony
- a contrast between what you expect and reality
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that compares to unlike things
- monologue
- an extended speech given by one speaker
- narrator
- a person who tells the story
- personification
- giving non human things human characteristics
- plot
- the series of related events that make up the story
- exposition
- the first part of a fictional story. everything is introduced
- rising action
- the portion of a story in which the conflict rises
- climax
- the most exciting moment in the story, the turning point
- falling action
- the part following the climax
- denoument
- the final part of the story where conflicts are resolved
- point of view
- the vantage point where the writer chose to tell the story
- first person narrator
- one of the characters tells the story
- third person limited
- the narrator focuses on thoughts/ feelings of the character
- setting
- time and place of the story
- similie
- makes a comparison between two unlike things
- symbolism
- something that represents something else
- theme
- the central idea
- soliloquy
- a speech in which a character represents his thoughts/feelings
- person vs person
- conflict between two or more characters
- person vs nature
- character vs nature
- person vs self
- a character at war with himself
- person vs society
- a character vs a machine, or society in general.
- prologue
- introducing the setting, characters, etc