| Term | Definition |
|---|
| pathetic fallacy | a form of personification giving human traits to nature |
| pathos | greek root meaning suffering or passion commonly describes part in play/story that gives audience pitty/sorrow |
| picaresque novel | fiction consisting of a lengthy string or loosely connected events having adventures of rogue living |
| plot | actions/ sequence of eventes in a sotry. series or related incidents that build upon each other |
| plot line | the graphic display of the action or eventes in a story |
| poetic justice | "character gets what he deserves" mainly punishment |
| point ov fiew | vantage point of whom the story is told by. 1st, 2nd, 3rd person limited or omniscent |
| protagonist | main character or hero of the story |
| pseudonym | pen/false name. applies to a writer |
| quest | main character seeking to find something or achieve a goal, in the process the character overcomes obstacles. |
| realism | literature that attempts to represent life as it really is |
| renaissance | 'rebirth' period of history following the midle ages [14th century - 16th century] |
| resolution | denoument, problem is solved. after climax and falling action, giving a satisfactory end |
| rising action | literary movement with an emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
| romanticism | a literary movement with an emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
| sarcasm | the use or praise to mock someone or soemthign |
| satire | a literary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent or correction/changing subject of attack |
| setting | time and place in which the ation of a literary work occurs |
| short story | a brief fictionarl work usually containing one major conflict and at least one main character |
| slapstick | a form of low comedy including exagerated/violemt action ex: pie in face |
| slice of life | term describing realistic or naturalistic writing that reflects what life is like |
| soliloquy | speech delivered by a character when he/she is alone on stage, thinking out loud |
| stereptype | a form that doesn't chance, no individuality and fits the mold of a particular type of person |
| stream of conciousness | a style of writing in which the thoughts and feelings of the writer are recorded as they occur |
| style | how the author sues words, phrases, and sentences to form his/her ideas. has qualities and charactaristics that distinguish one work from anotehr |
| symbol | a person , place, or thingor an event used to represent something else |
| theme | statement about life that a writer is wanting to get across in a piece of writing |
| tone | overall feeling created by a writer's use of words |
| total effect | general impression a literary work leaves the reader |
| tragedy | a litereary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw or forces beyond his/her control |
| tragic hero | character who experiences an inner strength becasue of a character flaw. struggle ends in defeat of hero |
| transcendentalism | philosophy requring human beings to go beyond reason in search for truth. Assumes character can arrive at truth through spiritual insign if they think seroiusly about them. |
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