Lit Terms for English Final Flashcards
Allegory
A story or narrivate with characters, events, or setting that represents abstract ideas or moral qualities, often used to convey deeper meanings.
Allusion
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.
Antagonist
The character or force in a story that opposed the protagonist creating conflict and tension.
Autobiography
A written account of a person’s own life often written by the subject of the story.
Biography
An account of a person’s life written by someone else, typically covering significant aspects of their life.
Character
A person, animal, or entity in a story, often with distinct traits motivations, and roles.
Climax
The point of greatest tension or conflict in a story usually occurring near the story’s conclusion
Comedy
A gene of literature and drama characterized by humor, light-heated tone, and a happy or resolved ending.
Conflict
The struggle or problem that drives the plot often involving a clash between opposing forces or desires.
Denouement
The final part of a story that resolves remaining conflicts, ties up lose ends, and offers a sense of closure
Description
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.
Diary
A personal, often daily, record of one’s thoughts, experences, and reflection, typically in a chronological format.
Drama
A genre of literautre meant to be proformed, often involving
conflict, dialouge, and character development
Epic
A long narrative poem or story that typically portrays heroic deeds, often with a legendary or mythologcial quality
Exposition
The part of a story that provides essential background information, setting, and character introductions
Fable
A short story featuring animals or inanimate objects as characters, conveying a moral lesson.
Falling action
The part of the sotry that follows the climax and leads to the story’s resoltuion, where tensions begin to ease
First person pov
A narrative perspective where the story is told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using pronoungs like I and me
Flashback
A narravitve device where the story returns to a prevous time or event to provide additonal context or information
Forshadowing
Hints or clues in a story that suggest future events or outcomes
Imagery
Vivid and descriptive language that appeals to the senses creating a mental picture for the reader
Irony
A literary device in which there is a contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other.
Myth
A tradtional story that often explains the orgin of a culture’s beliefs, cutsoms, or natural phenomena
Narration
The act of telling a story, typicaly though written or spoken words
Narrator
The charcter or enity who tells the story to the audience.
Nonfiction
Literary works based on real events, facts, and experiences.
Novel
A long fictional narrative that explores characters, plot, and themes in depth.
Objective
A perceptive that presents information without personal bias, feelings, or opinions.
Personification
A literary device that gives human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman things or animals
Plot
The sequence of events that make up a story
POV
The perpective from which a story is told, including the first person, thrid-person, and more.
Propaganda
Information or material used to promote a specific point of view or agenda.
Protagonist
The main character in a story often driving the plot and facing conflicts
Pun
A play on words that relies on multiple meanings or simular sounds of words
Resolution
The part of a story where conflicts are resolved and the story conlcudes
Rising action
The part of the story that builds tension and develops the plot leading up to the climax.
Setting
The time and place in which a story occurs
Short story
A breif work of fiction that typically focuses on a single character or incident
Simile
A figure of speach that makes a comparison between two things using like or as
Stereotype
A widely held but oversimplified and generilzed belief or idea about a particular group or thing
Subjective
A perspective that includes personal opinions, feeling, and biases.
Symbol
An object, character, or concept that represents deeper or abstract ideas in a story
Theme
The centeral idea or message of a story that explores univerisal concepts or issues
Third Person POV
A narrative perspective where the story is told by an external narrator, using pronouns like he, she, and they.
