| Term | Definition |
|---|
| allegory | story to teach a lesson |
| allusion | a reference to a historical text/events |
| ambiguity | lacking strict definition |
| archetype | unnamable historical time unjust gov |
| protagonist | hero |
| antagonist | villan |
| antihero | flawed hero |
| foil character | innaction shows how corageous other character is |
| round character | changes throughout the story |
| Flat character | remains the same |
| climax | before end of story build up to end |
| conceit | very far fetched comparison of 2 very opposite things |
| conflict | opposition of forces. when you don't know where to go must be resolved at very end. |
| connotation | your own definition |
| denotation | dictionary definition |
| denouement | outcome of a sequence of events |
| diologue | spoken part characters say things to one another |
| didactic | intended to teach |
| dystopia | bad place |
| euphemism | language thats used to dissociate something else |
| fable | a story that is not true, short story, teaches lesson |
| falling action | after climax |
| farce | far fetached comedy that ridicules something |
| figurative | non literal language |
| flashback | refers back to a time before the story started |
| foreshadow | to fortell something that is going to happen |
| genre | type, style, theme, age group, medium |
| gothic | mid-evil european literature- urban in scape |
| hyperbole | exageration |
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