Vickers Literary Terms
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- antagonist
- the opponent or villian of a story
- characterization
- includes all techniques writers use to create and develop characters (ex: when we made our Outsiders organizer and listed the Greasers-how they dressed, where they lived, etc.)
- author's purpose
- their reason for creating a particular work
- cause and effect
- two events that are related because one event brings about another. (Ex. Crashing into another car because I didn't stop at a stop sign)
- static character
- characters who change a little(ex: a nice character is still nice or nicer at the end of the story)
- context clues
- words surrounding an unknown word that gives hints to the unknown word's meaning (Ex: The feline meowed loudly. What type of animal meows? A cat- I used meow as a context clue.)
- comparison/contrast
- process of pointing out what two or more topics have in common or how they are different (ex: you have the same color eyes as Susy Q but she is taller)
- bibliography
- a list of writings with time and place of publication(such as the wirtings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)
- alliteration
- repitition of a sound or letter at the beginning of a word
- climax
- in the plot of the story or play, this is the point of maximum interest (ex: the exciting part of the story)
- author's argument
- author's beliefs or attitudes as expressed in his or her work
- protagonist
- central character in a story, play or novel
- concluding sentences
- restating your main idea or theme in different words (ex: How you would end your paragraph-saying the same thing but in different words)
- dynamic character
- characters who change significantly (ex: a mean character who changes into a nice character because of something that happens in the story)
- Author's use of description
- how the author gives details within his writing
- contrast
- the process of pointing out the difference of things