Literature-short story terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with the main character |
| external conflict | the struggle between opposing forces, a struggle between a character and an outside force |
| internal conflict | a struggle which takes place in the protagonist's mind and through which the character reaches a new understanding or dynamic change |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| foil | a person or thing, that by contrast makes another seem better or more prominent |
| foreshadowing | the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| genre | a division or type of literature |
| irony | the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is descrided as though it were somethign else |
| mood | atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| motivation | A reason that explains or partially explains why a character thinks, feels, acts, or behaves in a certain way |
| narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story |
| onomatopoeia | is the use of words that imitate sounds |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| plot | the sequence of events in a literary work |
| point of view | is the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| setting | the time and place of the action |
| suspense | a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events |
| symbol | is anything that stands for or represents something else |
| theme | is a central mesage, concern, or insight into life expressed in a literary work |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| first person | told from the narrator's point of view, using "I" |
| third person limited | The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters. |
| third person omniscient | the narrator is not a character in the story and reports not only what can be seen and heard, but also the thoughts and feelings of all of the important characters |
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