| Term | Definition |
|---|
| anotonym | Words that are the opposite in meaning |
| character | person, animal,or thing that takes part in the action of a literary work |
| climax | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
| internal conflict | conflict occurs with a character |
| fiction | writing by an author that isnt true. Its about imaginary characters and events |
| fact | Statement that can be proved |
| Dynamic | Character that is constantly changing throughout a piece of literature |
| external conflict | Conflict that occurs from outside forces |
| conflict | Stuggle between opposing forces in a work of literature |
| juxtapostion | to place two occurences or two happenings side by side in a work of literature for a specific purpse. |
| metaphor | What an author uses to help a reader picutre comparison between two objects not normally compared using "is" "was" or "are" |
| nonfiction | Writings that are 100% true |
| personification | literary device,author gives human characteristics to something thats not |
| plot | Sequence of events in a work of literature |
| point view | relationship of a narrator to the story |
| prefix | group of letters added to the pegginging of a word to change the meaning of the word |
| root | Basic part of the word |
| setting | time and place of action, limitting factor, |
| short story | brief work of fiction meant to be read in one sitting |
| simile | comparison between two objects not normall compared using the two words "like" or "as" |
| static | character doestn change throughout a piece of literature |
| suffix | group of letters added to the ending of the word to change the meaning of thw word,changes the tense |
| symbol | somethign stands for itself more than itself,concrete objects that stands abstract. |
| synonyms | two words that are similar in meaning |
| theme | main idea of literature. Hub of story. Need to understand it to get the meaning. |
| thesis statement | central idea or purpose in a work of nonfiction |
| third person | narrator isn't a character in the story |
| third person(omniscient) | all knowing narrator |
| tone | writers attitude towards his audience or subject matter of his work of literature |
| poetry | The most concentrated form of literature |
| speaker | the voice in work of poetry |
| alliteration | repeating of the initial letter in a consecutive or near consecutive word |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| stanza | a poetic paragraph |
| rhyme | words that sound the same |
| myth | phenomena, unlike a legend it must have historical truth. Often involve supernatural events. |
| satire | writing that makes fun of the problems in a society with hope of rendering or fixing them |
| noun | names a person, place or thing |
| pronoun | words used in place of a noun |
| verb | expresses existence, action or occurence. An action or state of being |
| adjective | modifies a noun or a pronoun |
| preposition | placed typically by a noun and pronoun. The relation of that substanstive to a ber an adjective. |
| conjunction | Any member of a small class of words distinguised in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clasuses, or sentences, as and, belongs, but however. |
| interjection | an memberr of a class of words expressing emotion distinguised in most languages by their use in grammatical isolation. HEY OUCH UGH |
| exposition | in draw opening segment introduces characters, setting,situations and other details crucial to underastanding |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a work of literature |
| great chain of being | shakespeare term everthing in the universe has its place. Held together by love. |
| drama | dialogue involvin conflict or contrast of chaaracter, one inteded to be acted on the stage in front of an audience |
| pun | play on words |
| soliloquy | speech in drama when a character is all by himself( all alone) on the stage. Its the truth. |
| blank verse | poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameters |
| aside | short speech delivered by an actor in a play which expersses the characters thoughts. Directed to the audience and is presumed to be in audible to other actors not alone. |
| hubris | tragic flaw of excessibe pride |
| comedies | plays taht make fun of human problems |
| tragedies | serious plays presenting downfall of noble but flawed heroes |
| monologue | long uniterrupted speech by one character that others can hear |
| parallelism | type of repetition used for a series of words,phrases,sentences that have same grammatical structure. |
| discrepancy of awareness | one character or gorupe of characters know more than the other character or characters know |
| passion | intese emoption feeling creates overpowerin effects, the drive, will to do things can take away awareness, can be a threat to order. |
| characterization | in the process of developing people or animals in stories. Way a writer brings characters to life. |
| direct characterization | directly telling you about the characters personality |
| biography | account of a person's lfie written by another individual |
| autobiography | persons own account of his/her life |
| biographical sketch | informal, intimate picture of a persons life( focuses on subjects personality) |
| anecdote | brief often entertaining story about the subject |
| essay | short nonfiction work about a particuar subject |
| allusion | reference in literature to something that has occured earlier in literature or history |
| flashback | technique is a technique that allows an author to interrupt the action of a story to recreate a scene from an earlier time |
| iamb | unit of rythm |
| indirect characterization | revealing personality traits through the charadcters, thoughts, words, and actions, as well as through other character comments |
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