Literature - analysis
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 character study | An examination of a character in the context of the work of literature in which he or she appears. |
| comparison contrast | A writing that develops two or more subjects by showing how they are alike or how they are different |
| Introduction | brief references to principal idea or theme, plots principle characters, circumstances, principle conflict, issues of the plot, and thesis to be developed in the body of the story |
| body | focuses on developing the main elements of topic or plot |
| conclusion | summary of important point of story or impact of plot |
| plot | The series of events in a story that gives it structure and direction - motivation of story |
| conflict | the problem or problems characters face in a literary work - creates interest in characters and story |
| setting | The time and place of a story |
| point of view | the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient) |
| 1st person | A perspective in which the narrator refers to him or herself as "I" and is a character in the story |
| 2nd person | the narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said using the personal pronoun "you" this p.o.v. is rare |
| 3rd person | "He, she, it, they" - the story is told by someone, usually not identified by name, who knows it. Usually in the past tense. |
| Omniscient | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. |
| Limited Omniscient | a narration limited to what a single character can think, see, know, or judge |
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