Lit Terms for English Final

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

A story or narrivate with characters, events, or setting that represents abstract ideas or moral qualities, often used to convey deeper meanings.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A breif reference to a person, place, event, or work of literature that is well-known, meant to enchance the understanding of the current text by drawing upon the associations with the reference.

Question 3

Antagonist

Answer 3

The character or force in a story that opposed the protagonist creating conflict and tension.

Question 4

Autobiography

Answer 4

A written account of a person’s own life often written by the subject of the story.

Question 5

Biography

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An account of a person’s life written by someone else, typically covering significant aspects of their life.

Question 6

Character

Answer 6

A person, animal, or entity in a story, often with distinct traits motivations, and roles.

Question 7

Climax

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The point of greatest tension or conflict in a story usually occurring near the story’s conclusion

Question 8

Comedy

Answer 8

A gene of literature and drama characterized by humor, light-heated tone, and a happy or resolved ending.

Question 9

Conflict

Answer 9

The struggle or problem that drives the plot often involving a clash between opposing forces or desires.

Question 10

Denouement

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The final part of a story that resolves remaining conflicts, ties up lose ends, and offers a sense of closure

Question 11

Description

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The use of words to create a vivid picture or sensory experience, typically to enchance the reader’s understanding of a character, setting, or scene.

Question 12

Diary

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A personal, often daily, record of one’s thoughts, experences, and reflection, typically in a chronological format.

Question 13

Drama

Answer 13

A genre of literautre meant to be proformed, often involving
conflict, dialouge, and character development

Question 14

Epic

Answer 14

A long narrative poem or story that typically portrays heroic deeds, often with a legendary or mythologcial quality

Question 15

Exposition

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The part of a story that provides essential background information, setting, and character introductions

Question 16

Fable

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A short story featuring animals or inanimate objects as characters, conveying a moral lesson.

Question 17

Falling action

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The part of the sotry that follows the climax and leads to the story’s resoltuion, where tensions begin to ease

Question 18

First person pov

Answer 18

A narrative perspective where the story is told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using pronoungs like I and me

Question 19

Flashback

Answer 19

A narravitve device where the story returns to a prevous time or event to provide additonal context or information

Question 20

Forshadowing

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Hints or clues in a story that suggest future events or outcomes

Question 21

Imagery

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Vivid and descriptive language that appeals to the senses creating a mental picture for the reader

Question 22

Irony

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A literary device in which there is a contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs

Question 23

Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other.

Question 24

Myth

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A tradtional story that often explains the orgin of a culture’s beliefs, cutsoms, or natural phenomena

Question 25

Narration

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The act of telling a story, typicaly though written or spoken words

Question 26

Narrator

Answer 26

The charcter or enity who tells the story to the audience.

Question 27

Nonfiction

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Literary works based on real events, facts, and experiences.

Question 28

Novel

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A long fictional narrative that explores characters, plot, and themes in depth.

Question 29

Objective

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A perceptive that presents information without personal bias, feelings, or opinions.

Question 30

Personification

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A literary device that gives human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman things or animals

Question 31

Plot

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The sequence of events that make up a story

Question 32

POV

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The perpective from which a story is told, including the first person, thrid-person, and more.

Question 33

Propaganda

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Information or material used to promote a specific point of view or agenda.

Question 34

Protagonist

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The main character in a story often driving the plot and facing conflicts

Question 35

Pun

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A play on words that relies on multiple meanings or simular sounds of words

Question 36

Resolution

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The part of a story where conflicts are resolved and the story conlcudes

Question 37

Rising action

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The part of the story that builds tension and develops the plot leading up to the climax.

Question 38

Setting

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The time and place in which a story occurs

Question 39

Short story

Answer 39

A breif work of fiction that typically focuses on a single character or incident

Question 40

Simile

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A figure of speach that makes a comparison between two things using like or as

Question 41

Stereotype

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A widely held but oversimplified and generilzed belief or idea about a particular group or thing

Question 42

Subjective

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A perspective that includes personal opinions, feeling, and biases.

Question 43

Symbol

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An object, character, or concept that represents deeper or abstract ideas in a story

Question 44

Theme

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The centeral idea or message of a story that explores univerisal concepts or issues

Question 45

Third Person POV

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A narrative perspective where the story is told by an external narrator, using pronouns like he, she, and they.