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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances |
| Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize |
| Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect |
| Anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) |
| Character | the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions |
| Climax | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
| Conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) |
| Connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested |
| Dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people |
| Fable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
| Flashback | a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story |
| Flash Forward | An action that jumps ahead of the story to narrate an event that happens at a later time. |
| Foil | anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities |
| Folk tale | a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk |
| foreshadowing | the act of providing vague advance indications |
| Genre | a kind of literary or artistic work |
| Characterization | acting the part of a character on stage |
| indirect characterzation | takes place when the writer lets you drawyour own conclusions about someone from what the person says or how people react to the person |
| Direct characterization | Author directly describes character |
| Static character | a character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end |
| flat character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story |
| round character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background |
| subordinate character | less important or minor characters |
| motivation | the act of motivating |
| idiom | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up |
| Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| Mood | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling |
| Myth | a traditional story accepted as history |
| Plot | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) |
| Point of view | the spatial property of the position from which something is observed |
| Satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| Setting | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted |
| Tall tale | an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story |
| Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| Tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color |
| tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color |
| theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| tall tale | an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story |
| plot | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) |
| point of view | the spatial property of the position from which something is observed |
| Genre | a kind of literary or artistic work |
| Foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| Fable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
| Allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances |
| Foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal, a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
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