Literary Terms (VOCAB)
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CoachCarverKDDC on August 14, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Exposition | The beginning of the story that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation. Background Information |
| Conflict | the problem or struggle in the story |
| Rising Action | the events with conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax |
| Climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point, highest point of suspense |
| Falling Action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution |
| Resolution | End of the story where loose ends are tied up |
| Plot | the chain of events in the story that make it worth reading, hearing, or watching. The action of the story! |
| Setting | The time and place of a story, where and when it takes place |
| Character | a person, animal, creature, or robot that takes part in the action of a story |
| Main Character | the most important figure in a literary work; hero; protagonist. |
| Minor Character | one who takes part in the action but is not the focus of attention |
| Fiction | Fake. Not real. It may even seem real, but it's just made up. |
| Non-Fiction | Not fake. True story. |
| Internal Conflict | Person vs. Self, a struggle inside the heart or mind of a character |
| External Conflict | a struggle between a character and an outside force such as another character, a society, or nature itself. |
| Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event, when a portion of the story goes back in time |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the story. The fun stuff that leaves you making guesses. |
| Character Development | How the character changes throughout the story, this always happens as a result of conflict. |
| Poetry | A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination. |
| Prose | the ordinary form of written language, the way we write in today's world. |
| Protagonist | main character, good guy, BATMAN!!! |
| Antagonist | bad guy, always against the good guy or protagonist. The JOKER! |
| Hero/heroine | the main character in a story, poem, or play. Good guy!!! Superman!!! |
| Villain | A make you sound smart word for bad guy :) |
| Imagery | mental pictures, description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| Mood | the feeling created in a reader by the literary work. |
| Moral | a useful lesson about life from a book. |
| Motive | a reason for doing something, , an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way |
| Suspense | Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story |
| Dialogue | conversation between characters in a story, the stuff in quotation marks. |
| Irony | when the opposite of what is expected happens |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told, 1st person or 3rd person. |
| Novel | a long work of fiction, chapter book. |
| Genre | type of literature |
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