Short Story vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allusion | Detail or moment in a work. One work makes reference to another, to history events, mythology, the Bible, etc. |
| Antagonist | the character that opposes the protagonist |
| Caricature | a portrayal of a few exaggerated traits |
| Round Character | many traits, well-developed ex. Jack |
| Flat Character | only have one trait or characteristic ex. Roger |
| Dynamic Character | character changes in story) ex. Ralph |
| Static Character | stays the same during the whole book |
| Climax | the decisive moment in a novel or play |
| Internal Conflict | a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character |
| External Conflict | a problem or struggle between a character and someone or something outside of the character |
| Denouement | the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work |
| Dialogue | a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people |
| Exposition | introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
| Falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution |
| Figurative language | metaphors and similes Any time when the author is speaking in a way that's not literal. |
| Foil | A person who is similar to another character, but has a key difference. Purpose of it is to point out the flaws of the other person. Ex: Banquo and Macbeth, Jack and Ralph |
| Genre | a way of categorizing literature by technique or topic. |
| Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience |
| verbal irony | when someone says something but means the oppostie |
| dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the characters do not |
| situational irony | coincidental |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| mood | the feel of the story that the reader has |
| narrator | The person telling the story |
| Oedipus complex | according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father ...? |
| Paradox | when there are no logical options to solve a dilemma |
| Point of view | Relationship of narrator to story and knowledge or bias of narrator (not applicable to drama) |
| 1st Person | Narrator is a character in the story and uses "I" to refer to self |
| 2nd person | narrator talks to reader |
| 3rd person | The narrator is not a character and refers to character by "he/she/ name) |
| 3rd Person Objective | (Camera's Eye View)- The narrator knows events but not thoughts of other characters |
| 3rd Person Limited Omniscient | When the narrator knows one character's thought or or is "inside" one character's head ( i.e Harry Potter) |
| 3rd Person Omniscient | When the narrator is inside more than one character's head ( i.e Lord of the Flies) |
| Protagonist | Main character of the story |
| Rising action | the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax. |
| sarcasm | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| Satire | literature in which vices, flaws, wrongdoings and shortcomings of something in society are help up with the intent of shaming that thing and motivating the audience to improve. Often darkly humorous and sarcastic. |
| Setting | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a story is set |
| Tone | Author's attitude towards the subject and possibly towards the narrator |
| Voice | he actual words used by the narrator that help convey tone, sometimes called "diction" The way the narrator would sound if the story were read aloud. (LOL, rolls eyes) |
| Unreliable narrator | When the narrator is limited in some way that makes the limitation obvious to the reader |
| Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
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