literature
Terms
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- good will
- benevolence
- narrator who sees and knows all about the story
- omniscient
- disgusting, disagreeable
- odious
- appeals to the reader's five senses
- sensory language
- light hearted, merry
- jocund
- the character who tells the poem
- speaker in a poem
- to put out
- to extinguish
- words that communicate vivid pictures
- descriptive writing
- full of good humor
- jovial
- the highest point of interest or suspense in a story
- climax
- pretend
- feign
- a scene within a story that interrupts the normal sequence of events to provide imformation relative to the story
- flashback
- wearing threadbare clothes
- shabby
- conflict within a chacrter's mind
- internal conflict
- to protest, complain
- to remonstrate
- story is told through the eyes of a character
- 3rd person
- suggesting respect
- reverently
- the use of words to imitate sounds
- onomatopoeia
- not well known, dark, unclear
- obscure
- a familiar object that stands for something unfamiliar
- symbolism
- merry, cheerful, carefree
- blithe
- the end of the central conflict where a problem is resolved
- resolutions
- to make showy or display
- to flaunt
- a comparison of unlike things using like or as
-
simile
- delight;joy
- glee
- the time and place that a story takes place
- setting
- challenge, resistance to authority
- defiance
- repetition of initial constant sounds
- alliteration
- a substance composed of 2 or more substances
- compound
- the creation of believable fictitious characters
- characterization
- ghost
- apparition
- perspective from which the story is told
- point of view
- state of being improper
- impropriety
- a comparison stating one thing is another
- metaphor
- regret for wrong doing; self punishment
- penance
- a struggle between two opposing forces
- conflict
- obvious
- palpable
- conflict that has to do with struggles with an outside force
- external conflict
- a person who carries out the terms of a will
- executor
- autobiographical writing that deals with the writer's memory of someone or an important event
- memoir
- a division or type of literature ex:poetry, novels, short stories, biography, etc.
- genre
- central or controlling idea of a literary work
- theme
- repeated words or phrases
- repetition
- the sequence of events in a story
- plot
- a long prose of fiction
- novel
- one character tells the story
- 1st person
- the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen
- foreshadowing
- a brief work of fiction that contains essential elements of a literature such as setting, plot, and conflict
- short story