Literature and Writing Terms Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Conflict | The problem or problems characters face in a story. |
| Protagonist | The main character of a story that the action revolves around. |
| Antagonist | The character and/or force working against the goal or desire of the protagonist |
| Characterization | The way that the author reveals the personality of a character. |
| Static character | A character who does not change at all, or who remains almost entirely the same, throughout the story. |
| Dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of events that take place in the story. |
| Foreshadowing | The authors use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot. |
| Flashback | A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of a story to show an important event that happened at an earlier time. |
| 1st person narrator | A character in a story telling the story. |
| 3rd person narrator | A source outside of the story is telling the story. |
| Simile | A comparison of two objects that uses like or as. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two objects that does not use like or as. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words in a phrase. |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to a non-living object or animal. |
| Hyperbole | A large exaggeration for the purpose of creating a picture in the reader's mind. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates a sound. |
| Repetition | A word or a line is repeated in a poem. This is usually done to stress importance. |
| Imagery | The author's use of descriptive language that is intended to invoke the reader's five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch and smell). |
| Stanza | Groups of lines in poetry that are separated by space. |
| Mood | The general emotional feeling a poem generates. |
| Transitions | Words or phrases that are used to help connect one idea to another and allow your writing to read more smoothly. |
| Topic Sentence | The introductory sentence in a paragraph that introduces the topic of the paragraph to the reader. |
| Direct Quotation | The exact words that an author or speaker said that are surrounded by quotation marks. |
| Connection to argument sentence | This is a sentence that follows the evidence presented by the author that makes clear to the reader how the evidence supports the writers argument. |
| Theme | The universal message of a story or poem. |
| Main Idea | The overall topic of a piece of writing or paragraph. |
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