8th Grade, First Quarter, LMS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Character | a person,creature or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| Main Character | the most important character in a story, poem, or play. |
| Minor Characters | less important characters, but is necessary for the story to develop. |
| Flat Character | one-sided and often stereotypical |
| Round Character | a fully developed character and exhibits many traits. |
| Stereotypes | characteristics we attribute to people based on their membership in a group |
| Protagonist | main character |
| Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character or Protagonist. |
| Plot | The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next. |
| Climax | A struggle between opposing forces. |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| Man vs Man | External conflict |
| Man vs Nature | External conflict |
| Man vs Himself | Internal conflict |
| Setting | the time and place of a story |
| Theme | a central message, concern or purpose. |
| Point of View | the perspective or vantage point from which a story is told. |
| First Person Point of View | The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person, pronoun I. |
| Omniscient | Main characters point of view. |
| Dialect | a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
| Dialogue | the conversation between characters in poems, novels and short stories. |
| Narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story. |
| Atomosphere | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
| Mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Foreshadowing | an author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Irony | the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| Simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparsion between two unlike ideas. |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| Personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| Flashback | A scene within a story that interupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past. |
| Tone | The writer's attitude toward the readers and toward the subject conveyed by the language and rhythm of the speaker. |
| imagery | a word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell |
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