Literature Mid-Terms Terms
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- concrete
- a poem that has a shape that adds to the meaning of the poem
- round character
- a well developed character one having many traits, thoughts and feelings
- repetition
- the use of a word/ phrase/ many times
- refrain
- a set of words/ phrases repeated often in a song or poem
- exposition
- the beginning of the story
- poetry
- one of the genres of literature written in stanzas
- genre
- three large categories into which all writing can be divided
- dialect
- language that is specific to a part of the country
- genre
- particular form of writing; three major categories
- expository
- the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader.
- character
- a person or animal that moves the action of the story forward
- protagonist
- the main character in a story
- antagonist
- character who works against the main charcter of the story
- narrator
- the speaker in a novel or short story
- narrative
- collection of events that tells a story which may or may not be true
- theme
- the central message of the story
- prose
- one of the genres of literature written in paragraphs
- setting
- time and place of action
- poetic form
- the structure of a poem
- symbol
- something that stands for something else
- dynamic character
- character who changes and grows in the story
- suspense
- feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story
- foreshadowing
- hint or clue that will lead to something that will happen later
- persuasive
- used to convice the reader of the writer's point of view
- omniscence
- knows everything going on in the story
- plot
- sequence of events
- mood
- a feeling created in the reader as he or she reads
- figures of speech
- simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbol, allusion
- falling action
- end of the central conflict
- resolution
- the story's outcome
- rhythm
- the pattern of beats
- climax
- the story's turning point
- infer
- to figure out based on the information given
- autobiography
- self written story about ones life
- lyric
- a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the author creating an image
- ballad
- a poem intended to be sung
- paraphrase
- to put someone else's ideas or thoughts or stories into your own words
- rhyme scheme
- a pattern of like sounding words at the end of each line of poetry labeled in lower case letters
- alliteration
- the repetition of the intitial (first) consonant sound of several words in a row or close together
- point of view
- perspective from which the story is told
- image
- a picture created in the reader's mind by the words on the page
- irony
- to say one thing but mean the opposite
- allusion
- a reference to a well known work of art, literature, or the Bible
- symbol
- an object that stands for something else
- static character
- character who does not change in the story
- dialogue
- a conversation b/w characters in a drama or narrative
- narrator limited
- doesn't know everything going on in the story
- non-fiction
- a story based on facts
- drama
- one of the genres of literature written in dialogue and stage directions
- rhyme
- two or more words with like ending sounds
- metaphor
- a comparison between two objects not using the word "like" or "as"
- simile
- a comparison between two objects using the words "like" or "as"
- speaker
- the character who is the voice of the poem
- rising action
- events leading up to the climax
- biography
- story written about somenone elses life
- free verse
- poetry with no set rhyme, rhythm or stanza structure
- narrative
- a poem that tells a story
- fiction
- a created or made up story
- personification
- giving an inhuman object a human quality
- motivation
- the reason why a character says or does a particular thing
- haiku
- three line, seventeen syllable poem from Japan
- minor character
- character who plays a small role in the story
- stanza
- a set of lines in a poem
- onomatopoeia
- sound words
- conflict
- struggle between opposing forces in a story
- flat character
- character who is presented with only one or two main personality traits without much development