Elements of Literature
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- Foreshadowing 2
- Makes a narrative more believeble by partially preparing the reader for events which are to follow
- Situation Irony
- The contrast between what the action of the story is versus what action the reader expects
- Direction Characterization
- A characters qualities are fully state and by the author
- Person v. Nature
- Day after tomorrow
- Paradox
- any self-contridicting situation that turns out to be accuarate ex) hungry i could eat a horse
- Figuraitive Language
- When a writer uses comparisions to depict something in the story or poem or is able to take the literal meaning to a figuritive one to encouarage the reader and to bring a fresh perspective to something in a story or poem
- Plot
- The events that make up a story
- Rising Action
- Series of events that lead to the resolution
- Theme 4
- Actions and events- what do they "say"
- Exciting Force
- Event/Charchter that triggers the conflict
- Protagonist
- Main character in the story (good or bad)
- Person v. Society
- Society versus a personof people dont like what society is telling you to do
- Resolutionor Denoument
- Literally 'unknotting'. The final unraveling of a plot. The solution of a mystery an explanation or out come...implies on ingenous untying of the knot of an intuge, involving not only a satisfactory at come of the main situation but on explanation of all the secrets and misunderstandings connected with the plot complication (Horman & Holmon 146)
- Flat Character
- does not change and is seen as only one type of person (good or bad)
- Similie
- The comparision of two unlike things using like, as, seems or than
- Imagery
- The use of words to to evoke the five senses ex.) soft plush carpet
- Person v. Person
- Someone doesnt agree with another
- Irony
- When the opposite happenes of what it is expected
- Exposition
- Introductory material which provides the opening conditions of the story, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story
- Antagonist
- The opposition to the main character (good or bad)
- Third person Objective
- Narrator sees into the mind of one characters
- Dramatic Irony
- When the reader or audience knows something that a character doesnt know
- Alliteraration
- The repetition of the same begining sound ex.)peter piper
- Allusion
- A referance, to a book, historical event or a famous person. ex.) Beware of the fruit
- Theme 2
- Thaoughts and conversations throughout the whole story
- Assonance
- The repetition of the same vowel sound (useally in the beging)
- Character or Dramatic Foil
- A character who is constructed with another to make that character seem better or worse
- Symbolism
- An object, character, or event that not only has its own meaning but also stands for something else
- Person v. Self
- Making a descisions against yourself on the inside
- Foreshadowing
- An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story. These hints come through dialogue, description, or the attitudes and reactions of the characters
- Foreshadowing 1
- Builds suspense by raising questions that encourage the reader to go on and find out more about the event that is being forshadowed.
- Round Character
- Has good as well as bad points. This character changes or grows during the story often due to what happens to him/her.
- Theme
- the authors general ideas or thoughts about people or life as stated in a story, novel, or poem. Becareful not to confuse "subject" with theme, think about what the author is making a statement about
- Verbal Irony
- The contrast between what a character states and what it is actually meant.
- Conflict
- The struggle that grows out the interplay of two opposing forces, conflicts provide interest, surprise, and tension. At keast one of the opposing forces is custimarily a person
- Metaphor
- The comparision of two unlike things by saying that one thing is something else
- Indirect Characterrization
- Reader must draw to conclusions about a character based on what the author says about a character or by what a character or by what a character says or does
- Theme 3
- Things the main character learns
- pun
- humorous play on words
- Mood
- Feeling evolved by the story or poem by the writers use of setting, image, etc.
- Tone
- Writers attitude towards the events in the story or poem
- Theme 1
- Feelings of the Main character
- Onopatopeia
- word itself suggests a sound
- Omniscient
- Narrator is an all- knowing outsoder who can enter the mind of more than one of the characters
- First Person Narrator
- The person telling the study can tell the reader his/her personal thoughts/feelings while giving the action of the study from only his/her perspective