english literary terms
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hannah-allen96 on August 30, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 plot | storyline: events through the novel |
| theme | lessons shown throughout the plot |
| symbol | something that represents something else |
| antagonist | creates conflict for the protagonist |
| protagonist | main character in the story |
| 1st person | narrator using I |
| 3rd person limited | the narrator only knows the thoughts & feelings of one |
| 3rd person omniscient | the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters |
| exposition | information offered to readers to help them understand the plot, characters, and setting of the story |
| antecedent | word the pronoun refers to |
| pronoun | word that takes a place of a noun (I, you, he, she, it & they) |
| topic sentence | first sentence of a paragraph introducing the main idea of the paragraph |
| metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| allegory | extended metaphor, fable, parable, poem |
| comma splice | having a comma to join two independent clauses with no conjunction afterwards |
| connotation | an idea or a feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to it's literal or primary meaning |
| denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or idea that the word suggests |
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