American Literature EOCT Part 1 Word 11-20
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americanwriters11 on November 1, 2010
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Mrs. Lyons 9th Lit. ESOL, Mrs. Smith's Literature Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Protagonist | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work |
| Point of View | the attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature, a movie, or another art form. |
| Syntax | This refers to the ordering of elements in a sentence. |
| Flashback | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. |
| Omniscient narrator | The omniscient narrator has a full knowledge of the story's events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of the various characters. |
| Figurative Language | speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things |
| Style | reveals the writer's personality or voice, but it also shows how he or she sees the audience of the writing. |
| Symbolism | provides meaning to the writing beyond what is actually being described. |
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