literary terms

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introduction of setting, characters, and basic situation

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exposition

Question 1

the sequence of events in a story (exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, turning point, falling action, resolution)

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plot

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struggle between opposing forces (man vs. man, man vs. group(society), man vs. himself/herself, man vs. nature)

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conflict

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the event or character that triggers the conflict

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inciting force

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events leading to the climax

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rising action

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item of utmost importance; point of highest interest and emotional response to a reader; turning point of a story

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climax

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events leading to the resolution

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falling action

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the final unwinding, or resolving, of the conflicts and complications in the plot

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resolution

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the narrative method in a piece of writing (whos telling the story)

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point of view

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the writer lets only one of the characters tell the story(this person speaks as “I”)

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first person pov

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the story is narrated by someone who stands outside the story, but also sees everything from the limited vantage point of only one character

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limited 3rd person pov

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the narrator is an “all knowing” observer who can describe all the characters and actions in the story as well as comment on wha the characters feel (allows us to see into the minds of all the characters[thoughts or feelings of more than one character])

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omnicent pov

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the time and place where the action of the story takes place

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setting

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the method writers use to define a character (character is revealed through physical description, dialogue, characters thoughts or actions, and reactions of other characters)

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characterization

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the author makes specific statements about the character

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direct characterization

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a character is revealed by the way he or she speaks, thinks, or acts

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indirect characterization

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central character in a literary work

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protagonist

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character who stands in direct opposition to or in conflict with the protagonist

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antagonist

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the main idea or message that the author wishes to share with the reader. a writer rarely states the what it is directly. the writer will leave hints so the reader must infer what it is

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theme

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the attitude the writer takes toward a subject or audience. a writers can have a lighthearded, cynical, affectionate, bitter, scornful, compassionate, detached, so on…

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tone

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the feeling the writer creates for the reader. there are several ways it can be established (descriptions of the setting, what characters say, the use of imagery, and figurative language can all be usd to develope this)

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mood

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pictoral quality achieved through a collection of images

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imagery

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a reference to a person or thing the writer expects the reader to recognize

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allusion

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an expression that could have more than one interpertation(slow children at play)

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double entendre

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an interlude in a story in which an event that took place earlier momentarily interrupts the storys actions

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flashback

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hint or suggestion of a coming event

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foreshadowing

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involves a difference, or discrepancy btween what appears to be true and what really is true(appearance vs. reality)

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irony

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a speaker says the opposite of what he or she means

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verbal irony

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the discrepancy is between what a character says(or thinks) and wwwhat the reader knows is true(the character is not aware of what the reader knows is true

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dramatic irony

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occurs when a situation turns out to be different from what we expected

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situational irony

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A comparison of two unlike things

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metaphor

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A comparison of two things using like or as

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simile

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use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning ( boom boom pow )

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onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech in which to contradiction words or phrases are combined in a single expression (jumbo shrimp, wise fool)

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oxymoron

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giving human qualities/actions to an animate objects

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personification

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anything that stands for something else

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symbol

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repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of the words or within words ( The lanky long-legged llama licked the lollipop )

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Alliteration