| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story |
| Character | a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
| Characterization | the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features |
| Climax | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| Denouement | the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work |
| Epiphany | a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences |
| Exposition | Writing or speech that is organized to explain |
| Figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be taken literally |
| Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
| Foreshadowing | an author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| metaphor | comparison not using the words like or as |
| Mood | The feeling or atmosphere of a literary work |
| Myth | a traditional story that exsplains the way the world is |
| Narrative | a story or description of actual or fictional events |
| Nonfiction | writing that deals with and exsplains real people,places or objects |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| Plot | Sequence of events ina liteary work |
| Point of view | The person through whose eyes and mind the reader sees the story |
| Protagonist | the main characetr in a literary work (hero;good guy) |
| Satire | language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule |
| Simile | a comparison using the words like or as |
| Subplot | a story line with a work that is seperate from the main story line |
| Suspense | Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| Tone | the writers attitude toward his or her audience or subject |
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