Literary Terms final

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Personality of a fictitious character is revealed through speech and actions appearance etc

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Indirect characterization

Question 1

Process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives phrases or epithets

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Direct characterization

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Main idea or underlined meeting that can be stated directly or indirectly

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Theme

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A person in a novel play or movie or the mental or moral qualities distinctive to an individual

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Character

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Figure of speech in which words are used in a way that they’re intended meeting is different from actual words

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Irony

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Anxiety or state of uncertainty or excitement about resolution of something

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Suspense

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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Story with a fully developed game but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel

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Short story

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Description of a character in a novel

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Characterization

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Struggle between two opposing forces

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Conflict

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Characters representation in a story; giving nonhuman things human qualities

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Personification

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Expression design to call something to my without mentioning it; illusion in the Bible Shakespeare or mythology

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Allusion

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Comparison using words like or as in the sentence that compares two unlike things

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Simile

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Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book play or movie

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Dialogue

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Be a warning or indication of a future event

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Foreshadowing

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Particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group

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Dialect

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Spoken or written representation or count of a person object or event

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Description

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One who doesn’t change or evolve and who can be fully described in a single sentence

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Flat character

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Characters were most like real people and are fully described

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Round character

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Struggle between literary or dramatic characters and it outside force that drives the dramatic action of the plot

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External conflict

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Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, resolution that creates the plot suspense

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Internal conflict

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Account of someone’s life written by someone else

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Biography

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Poem with four lines

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Quatrain

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In object or image that represents something else

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Symbol

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Attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience

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Tone

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Gives background on what one is going to read

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Exposition

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Literary character who undergoes an important change in personality

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Dynamic character

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Visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work

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Imagery

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Comparison of two unlike things

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Metaphor

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Effect or feeling you get for the narrative

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Mood

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Character recounts the event of a novel or narrative poem

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Narrator

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Story written to be performed by actors

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Drama

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High/turning point in the story

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Climax

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Long work of fiction

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Novel

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Causing people to do or believe something anything to convince

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Persuasion

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Time or place of the action

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Setting

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Poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes

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Sonnet

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Sequence of events in a literary work

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Plot

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Perspective of individuals in different situations in a literary work

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Point of view

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Character who provides contrast to another character

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Foil

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Specific type of music drama film or writing

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Genre

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Main character in a literary work

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Protagonist

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Where everything is resolved in a story

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Resolution

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Form of nonfiction in which writer tells own story

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Autobiography

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Words are used to suggest opposite of what is meant

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Verbal irony

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Character that doesn't change

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Static character

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Ordinary form of written language

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Prose

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Work of literature mainly plays that result in a catastrophe for the characters

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Tragedy

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Events that follow climax and leads to resolution

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Falling action

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A story or tail with 2 or more levels of meaning

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Allegory

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Character or force in conflict with The protagonist

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Antagonist

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Turning point in a story in which it doesn't end the way you thought

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Anticlimax

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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A pair of rhyming lines

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Couplet

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Poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama

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Dramatic poetry

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Rhyming Words appear in the same line

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyming words come at the ends of lines

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End rhyme

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Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

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Lyric poem

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Poem that tells a story

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Narrative poem

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Use of words that imitate sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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One of the three major types of literature

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Poetry

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Use of any element of a language more than once

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Repitition

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Repetition of sounds at the end of words

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Rhyme

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A regular pattern of writing words in a poem

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of beats or stresses and spoken or written language

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Rhythm

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Formal division of lines in a poem

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Stanza