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HONOR WRITING AND LIT ANALYSIS FINAL VOCABULARY

Terms in this set (47)

What the character ultimately wants most
Desire
Appear as necessary to tell the story
Incidental Characters
Character or force in conflict with the protagonist
Antagonist
What the character looks like
Appearance
The main character of the novel
Protagonist
Character that drives the plot forward
Major Character
Characters who change within the novel
Dynamic characters
How hard the character will work to obtain their desire
Will
Plays a small role in the plots development
Minor character
Words that describe the characters overall perosnality
Summary adjectives
Character that supports other characters, but lack change
Static Characters
The characters major thoughts and feelings at the beginning and end of the work
Polar attitudes
Written by people who participated/observed in events
Primary source
Records written by people not directly involved
Secondary source
An authors attitude toward a subject
Tone
The feeling a word evokes from the audience
Connotation
An appeal to emotion
Pathos
The main point or thesis of the work
Purpose
The literal meaning of the word
Denotation
An appeal to authority and credibility
Ethos
A life lesson, moral, meaning, or message
Theme
The appeal to logic and reason
Logos
An authors typical way of writing is also known as his
Style
The authors attitude toward the subject is also called the
Tone
A group of poetic lines considered as a unit is called a
Stanza
This form of writing is nonfiction and objective
Essays
What describes organic poetry
Irregular and free verse
Writers use this literary device to maintain a conversational feel by breaking up sentences
Enjambment
This literary device analyzes an authors word choice
Diction
Nonfiction work in which the author writes about his own life
Autobiography
Nonfiction work that chronicles the events of someone's life
Biography
Writing that creates a vivid image
Descriptive writing
Story meant to be performed by actors
Drama
Short nonfiction work that explains a particular subject
Essay
Writing that conveys information or explains ideas
Expository writing
prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
fiction
Transcript of a guided conversation between two people
Interview
Autobiographical account of events and personal reactions
Journal
A story from the tradition of a culture that seeks to find meaning in human life and to explain that culture's interactions with the world
Myth
writing that tells a story
narrative writing
Prose writing about real people, places, and events
Nonfiction
Long work of fiction with the complex plot, many characters, etc
Novel
Work of fiction shorter than a novel but longer than a short story
Novella
Writing that seeks to convince the audience of the authors opinion
Persuasive writing
Thoughts artistically arranged into a collection of lines
Poetry
ordinary form of written language
prose
Short work of fiction with a simpler plot than a novel
Short story
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