| Term | Definition |
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| setting | the time and place where a story takes place |
| moral | a lesson taught by a work of literature |
| irony | the difference between what happens and what is expected to happen |
| fiction | made up or imaginary prose writing |
| climax | the most exciting part of a story |
| theme | underlying meaning of a work |
| allusion | a reference to a work of literature or to an actual person, even, place, or work of art |
| non-fiction | prose writing that is real or based on true events |
| drama | a story of life and action for representation of actors/literary work meant to be acted out |
| tragedy | a species of drama in which action and language are elevated and climax is a catatsrophe |
| myth | are stories that represent the deepest wishes and fears of human beings/imaginative work of lit. that involves gods and super nat. forces |
| short story | a short work of art fiction that is smaller than a novel |
| novella | a short novel but is longer than a short story |
| propaganda | a literary work with a political message |
| folk tale | stories passed down by word of mouth and it has no author |
| fable | short story intended to teach moral lesson |
| historical fiction | a novel or story set in real historical era |
| antihero | charecter who lacks noble qualitiies |
| antagonist | an adversary of the protaganist |
| sym. charecter | a char. whos situation you can understand |
| dyn. charecter | a charecter that changes throughout the work of lit. |
| foreshadowing | hinting at futurProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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| flat char. | a charecter you do now know very much about |
| static charecter | a char. that stays the same throughout |
| protagonist | main charecter |
| minor charecter | a lesser known charecter than a flat charecter |
| round charecter | a charecter you know alot avout |
| tall tale | exaggerated, far fetched story that is told to believed |
| dialect | a way of speaking that is charecteristic of a particular region or group of people |
| charecter | a person or animal/thing who takes part in th action of a literary work |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme inside a line of poetry |
| first-person narrator | uses i or my and mine to tell the story/told by a charecter in work |
| ordinary speech | when poetry is written in free verse it sounds like ...... |
| narrative poem | poems written to tell a story |
| prose | any type of writing that is not poetry |
| epic | a long narrative poem about the many deeds of a hero |
| omniscent narrator | kows about all charecters and events in story also reveals thougts of all charecters in a story |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| ode | a long lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, on a serious subject |
| elegy | a poem that is usually written in mourhing |
| lyric | expresses the feelings or thoughts of speaker rather than telling a story |
| idiom | a commonly used expression that is not literally true |
| onomotopeia | usage of words that echo their meanings like zip or boom |
| consonance | repition of consonant sounds where vowels are different |
| onsenance | the repition of vowel sounds in words that are close together |
| most important charecter in the story | a storys main charecter is the.... |
| refrain | a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
| conflict | main problem between opposing forces |
| alliteration | repition of consanant sounds in words close together |
| simile | a referal that uses the words like or as |
| plot | a chain of related events that tells what will happen |
| internal conflict | a struggle within ones self |
| charecter traits | refer to qualities that make up the personalities of a charecter |
| autobiography | a story written of ones life by ones self |
| resolution | end of story when everything cums together |
| context clues | can help you understand what youre reading |
| metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things |
| symbol | something that means something else |
| role of a narrator | to tell the story |
| inference | an educated guess at what will happen |
| table of contents | tells u where to find something in a book/topics |
| sonnet | contains 14 lines |
| climax | most exciting part of story |
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