Midterm Literary Terms

Question 0

Persons, animals, things, or natural forces presented as persons in a short story

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Character

Question 1

The sequence of events or happenings

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Plot

Question 2

The vantage point at which a story is told

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Point of view

Question 3

The basic meaning of the work

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Theme

Question 4

The time, place or atmosphere where a story takes place

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Setting

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A group of tails held together by the circumstances of the storyteller

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Framework story

Question 6

Makes the audience uncertain

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Suspense

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Hints and clues to suggest what actions are to come

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Foreshadowing

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Combines sadness in a humerus way

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Tragic-comic

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A struggle between two opposing forces

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Conflict

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Man vs man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, man vs. unknown

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External conflict

Question 11

Man vs. himself

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Internal conflict

Question 12

Background info. Part of the plot

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Exposition

Question 13

High point of the story with most intensity. Part of the plot

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Climax

Question 14

The outcome of the conflict of the story

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Resolution

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A mystery solved by a detective

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Detective story

Question 16

Exists to expand our awareness and understanding of life

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Interpretive literature

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The opposite of what is expected

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Irony

Question 18

What happens in a situation is the opposite of what is expected

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Situational irony

Question 19

When the reader has info that is not known by the character

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Dramatic Irony

Question 20

When the speaker or writer says the opposite of what they mean

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Verbal irony

Question 21

The aditude the author has towards its audience

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Tone

Question 22

A reference of one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature

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Allusion

Question 23

Someone who stays the same throughout the story

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Static character

Question 24

The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase

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Denotation

Question 25

The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse

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Connotation

Question 26

Two-dimensional, relatively uncomplicated, or or two traits

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Flat character

Question 27

Someone who undergoes a change in the story

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Dynamic character

Question 28

The caparison of two unlike things using like or as

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Simile

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The caparison of two unlike things not using like or as

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Metaphor

Question 30

Incidents, quotes, or inferences from the story that substantiate (support/give evidence/prove judgment)

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Proof

Question 31

Areas of proposed discussion in the paper (criterion) - how will u prove ur judgment?

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Criteria

Question 32

The conversation between characters

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Dialogue

Question 33

A character has a sudden insight or realization that changers their understanding

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Epiphany

Question 34

Language that cannot be taken literal, appears to the imagination and provides a new way of looking at something

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Figurative language

Question 35

Narrator tells the story from outside the story; "cameraman"

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Objective POV

Question 36

All knowing narrator from outside the story

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Omniscient POV

Question 37

Point of view where a character in the story is the narrator

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First person

Question 38

Narrator who reveals the thoughts of one focal character

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Limited omniscient

Question 39

Not influenced by person feelings or tastes

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Objective

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Influenced by personal feeling, tastes, or opinions

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Subjective

Question 41

Person who recounts the events of a novel

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Narrator

Question 42

A fictional narrative in prose, generally longer than a short story

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Novel

Question 43

Motive of criticism that addresses bad conditions and a society concise red to be floud and aims at practical solutions

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Social criticism

Question 44

A circumstance that complicates something; a difficulty

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Complication

Question 45

Dealing with a puzzling crime, especially a murder

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Mystery

Question 46

Type of fiction with imaginative objects such as futuristic settings

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Science Fiction

Question 47

An imagined place where everything is perfect

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Utopia

Question 48

A scene in a short story/ novel that interrupts the action to show an earlier event

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Flashback

Question 49

Tells the personality of the character directly

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Direct characterization

Question 50

Show things that reveal the personality of the character

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Indirect characterization

Question 51

Special words or expressions that are hard to understand and fit a special group

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Jargon

Question 52

All types of writing except poetry

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Prose

Question 53

Literature in the form of a prose that describes imaginary events and peoples

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Fiction

Question 54

Must be inferred or interpreted by the readers

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Implicit theme

Question 55

Clearly expressed of fully or dr directly stated in the text

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Explicit theme

Question 56

Subjective writing because expresses the writers opinion

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Critical analysis

Question 57

When writes choose to state a fact or idea directly

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Literal language

Question 58

The statement of belief or opinion and implied organization of the paper

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Thesis

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;Complex and undergoing change full of many traits

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Round character

Question 60

An object , person, place or actin that has meaning in itself

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Symbol

Question 61

Not as important as main character but in the novel for a reason

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Minor character

Question 62

Some works are written purely for entertainment and do not have a clear cut theme

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Escape literature

Question 63

The elements of fiction work together to create a single mood

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Single effect

Question 64

Form of language that is specific to a certain group

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Dialect

Question 65

At the beginning of the sentence and it helps make the story flow

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Translations

Question 66

An imagined place where everything is not perfect

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Dystopian

Question 67

The arrangement of things following one after another

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Chronological order

Question 68

A person who writes play

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Dramatist/ playwright

Question 69

The state of being universal

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Universality

Question 70

The condition of being anonymous

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Anonymity

Question 71

The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices

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Mood

Question 72

The reason why a character acts in a certain way

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Motivation