Literary Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 foreshadow | a writing technique to hint or imply that something will happen |
| flashback | an interruption in the action of a story to show an earlier scene |
| symbolism | an object a character, or an incident used in a piece of literature to represent something else |
| irony | a contrast between what appears to be and what really is |
| setting | the time and place of events in a story |
| theme | the main idea or the underlying message in a story |
| plot | a series of happenings or events in a literary work consisting of a conflict, pattern of events, climax, a resolution, and finally a conclusion |
| moral | the lesson learned in a story |
| imagery | a word or phrase that helps the reader experience things in a story or poem. the author uses 5 sensory deatails |
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling in a written work |
| simile | a comparison between two like things by using the term "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a comparison between 2 like things by saying that one thing is the other |
| genre | a form or type of literary work |
| non-fiction | writing about real people, or events/happening |
| fiction | a story novel or a play about imagined people and events |
| sci-fi | stories based on real or imagined scientific develpoments presenting a fantastical view of the future |
| Fantasy | Fiction that tells about people or events that are impossible in the real world |
| Biography | The factual account of a real persons life |
| Auto-biography | The story o a persons life written by that person |
| Myth | A traditional story connected with the religion or beliefs of a group of people, usually attempting to account for something in nature |
| Fable | A brief tale, in which the characters were often animals, told to point out a moral truth or to teach a lesson |
| Legend | A story handed down through the years |
| Personification | A comparison in which human characteristics are given to non-human things |
| Characterization | The way an author creates a character for the readers by revealing the character's traits, behaviors, feelings and motives |
| Alliteration | Repeayed consonant sounds occurring at the beginning or within words |
| Point of view | The position from which a story is told |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of a word that imitates or resumes the sound it stands for or describes |
| Connotation | The feelings, emotions and ideas associated with a word |
| Denotation | The exact definition of a word |
| Archaic language | Words, expressions or phrases that were once used, but are not used now |
| Dialect | A way of speaking, used by a particular region or group, and sometimes released by spelling or using words in a different way |
| Resolution | The solution or answer to he problem or a conflict in a story |
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