Quizlet Literary Terms 8

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  1. Antagonist: PROTAGONIST
  2. Character: a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
  3. Climax: also called the turning point, is the hight point in the action of the plot
  4. Comedy: is a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous or satirical, and ends happily
  5. Concrete Poem: is one with a shape that suggests its subject
  6. Conflict: a struggle between opposing forces
  7. Connotation: the connotation of a word is the set of ideas associated with meaning of a word
  8. Denotation: a word is its dictionary meaning of the word
  9. Development/Plot: sequence of cause and effect events
  10. Dialect: the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group
  11. Dialogue: is a conversation between characters
  12. Drama: is a story written to performed by actors
  13. Dynamic Character: is one who changes or grows during the course of the work
  14. Essay: short nonfiction work about a particular subject/ informal essay, historical essay, expository essay, narrative essay, informational essay, and persuasive essay
  15. Exposition: introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
  16. Expository Writing: writing that explains or informs
  17. Extended Metaphor: several connected comparisons
  18. External Conflict: man against man, man against nature, man against society
  19. Fable: is a brief story or poem, usually with animal characteristics, that teaches lesson, or moral
  20. Fantasy: highly imaginative that contains elements not found in the real life. include stories that involve supernatural elements
  21. Fiction: prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
  22. Figurative Language: language not meant to be taken literally
  23. Figure Of Speech: metaphor, personification, and simile
  24. First - Person (Point of View): point of view is told by a character who uses the first person pronoun "I."
  25. Flashback: writing technique that interups the story to tell about things in the past
  26. Flat Character: is one-sided and often stereotypical
  27. Folk Tale: it is a story passed down from person to person by word of mouth
  28. Foot: The weak and the strong stresses are then divied by vertical lines into groups called feet
  29. Foreshadowing: a writer's technique that gives you clues about what might happen in the future
  30. Free Verse: is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter
  31. Genre: division or type of literature : Poetry, Prose, and Drama
  32. Haiku: a japenese poem, three lines, five, seven, five syllables
  33. Hero/Heroine: a character whose actions are inspiring, or noble
  34. Historical Fiction: real events, places, or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
  35. Imagery: mental pictures
  36. Images: words or phrases that appeal to the five senses
  37. Internal Conflict: man against himself
  38. Irony: the literary techniques that uses surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions
  39. Journal: a periodic, account of events and the writer's thoughts and feelings about those events
  40. Legend: is a wildly told story about the past which discusses every culture
  41. Letters: written communication from one person to another
  42. Limerick: a humorous, rhyming, five - line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme
  43. Limited Third - Person (Point of View): point of view, the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feeling of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective
  44. Lyric Poem: is a highly musical that expresses the obsevations and feelings of a single speaker
  45. Main or Major Character: the most important character in a story, poem, or play
  46. Minor Character: is one who takes part in the action but is not the focous of attention
  47. Omniscient Third - Person (Point of View): point of view, the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks
  48. Poetry: one of the three major types of literature, musical, imagery, figurative language, and special devices of sound such as rhyme
  49. Point of View: perspective
  50. Problem: conflict
  51. Prose: ordinary form of written language
  52. Protagonist: main character
  53. Refrain: regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or a song
  54. Repetition: is the use, more than once, of any element of language/ sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence/ is used in both prose and poetry
  55. Resolution: outcome of the conflict
  56. Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
  57. Rhyme Scheme: a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
  58. Rhythm: is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
  59. Round Charcter: is fully developed and exhibits many traits---often both faults and virtues
  60. Scene: is a section of uninterrupted action in the act of drama
  61. Science Fiction: elements of fiction, fantasy, and scientific fact. Many stories are set in the future
  62. Sensory Language: writing or speech that appeals to the five senses
  63. Setting: time and place of the story
  64. simile: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
  65. Static Charactera: is one who does not change