Literacy Terms A
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 mood | the feeling that a literary work conveys to reader |
| point of view | a mental position from which a story is being told |
| objective | the narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees or hears, |
| omniscient | an all knowing person |
| conflict | the struggle found in fiction |
| internal conflict | a struggle which takes place in the protagonist mind and through which the character reaches a new understanding. |
| external conflict | a struggle between the protagonist and another character against nature or outside force |
| setting | the time,place and circumstance in which something occur |
| theme | the moral of a story |
| simile | a figure of speech in which 2 dissimilair things are compare by the use of 'like/as' |
| situational irony | an unexpected outcome |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitate the sound it represents |
| first person | the narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts,feeling and what he/she sees and is told by the other characters. |
| third person omniscient | the narrator is an all-knowing outsider |
| third person limited | the narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one if the charater |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name use by a person |
| protagonist | the main character in a story |
| antagonist | one who oppose against |
| flashback | a transition in a novel to an earlier scene |
| verbal irony | sarcasm |
| dramatic irony | the audience is aware of something the character is not |
| symbolism | a system of symbols and symbolic representations |
| parable | a simple story told to illustrate a moral truth |
| inference | to lead to as a condition or consequence |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which 2 dissimilair things are compare whioute using 'like/as' |
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