Ellsworth Literary Terms 8
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Terms | Definitions |
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 alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| mood | the emotional atmosphere of a work |
| ballad | a narrative song with a recurrent refrain |
| blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| catalog | traditional epic device consisting of a long rhetorical list or inventory. |
| direct characterization | Author directly describes character |
| indirect characterization | the character is revealed through their personality, appearance, words, actions, and effect on others |
| dynamic character | one whose character changes in the course of the play or story |
| static character | a character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end |
| flat character | a character who embodies a single quality |
| round character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background |
| climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point- |
| concrete language | Language that describes specific, observable things, peoples or places, rather than ideas or qualities. |
| conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) man vs. man; man vs. nature; man vs. society; man vs. himself |
| internal conflict | a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character |
| external conflict | a character struggles against some outside force: another character, society as a whole, or some natural force: |
| connotation | the feelings or emotions surrounding a word |
| consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the middle or ends of words |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| details | the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose |
| diction | the author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning |
| limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba |
| lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds-CRASH, BANG, HISS |
| point of view | the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient) |
| first person | The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can't tell us thoughts of other characters. |
| third person limited | Point of view in which narrator exists outside of all characters, but is privy to the feelings and thoughts of one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters |
| third person omnicient | when the narrator tells the story from the outside, but can enter the minds of all characters; the author is all knowing |
| protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction |
| resolution | the final unraveling or solution of the plot |
| rhyme | similar or identical sounds near each other (usually in two or more lines of poetry) |
| end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |
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