Literary Terms

Question 1

external conflict

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character strudggles with an outside force, which may be another character society as a whole, or a natural force

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internal conflict

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conflict takes place whitin a character’s own mind

Question 3

ecposition

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the inroduction to the character’s settign and situation at the beginning of the story novel or play

Question 4

narrative hook

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the point in the story or novel at which the author catches the reader’s attention by presenting an interesting problem or situation

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plot

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the sequence of events in a story novel or play. each event causes or leads to the next begins with the exposition and continues with the narrative hook rising action climaz and resolution

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climax

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the point of greatest emotional intestiy inrerst or suspense in a short story nocel or play

Question 7

short story

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a limited fictional narrative that is limited in scope of characters setting and conflict

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stetiing

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the time and place of the evens or action

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resolution

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the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting thee outcome of the conflict.

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rising action

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the part of the plot that increases reader interest and adds complications to the plot provlems

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fallin action

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the logical result of the climax that leads to the resolution

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plot twist

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an unexpected decleopment or turn of events

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theme

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an insight into life that a work of literature reveals

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imagery

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words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses

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tone

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the attitude taken by the author or speaker toward the subject of a work.

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inference

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making an educated guess the elements of the story

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atmosphere

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the overall mood or feeling of work of literatur

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fiction

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prose literatur in which a world is recreated or invented y the writer. Short stories and novels are two types

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symbol

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any object person place or ecperience that means more than what is is or stands for something else

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foreshowing

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the writers use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen after in a work of fiction.

Question 21

flashback

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a scene in a work of fiction that interrupts the present action to showecents that happened in the past.

Question 22

suspense

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the uncertainty or anxiety that read feels about what will happen next in a story.

Question 23

irony

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a contrast between reality and what seems to be real.

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situational irony

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occurs when what happends is very different from what we expected would happen.

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verbal irony

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involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant.

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dramatic irony

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occurs when the audience or the reader knows something a character dose not know.

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personification

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a figure of speech in which an object or animal is speken of as if it had human feelings.

Question 28

framework story

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a story within a story

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narrator

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the person telling the story

Question 30

point of view

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the antage point from wich a story is told.

Question 31

1 person pov

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pme of the hcharacter using the personal pronoun I tells the sotry.

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3 person limited pov

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the narrator foucsees on the thgoutht and feelings of only one chararcter

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omniscienct pov

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the narrator knows wevrything about the charcters and their problems. this all knowing narrator can tell us about the past the present and the future of the characters. the narrator can also tell us what the characters are thinking and what is happing several places at the same time.

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2 person pov

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the narrator tells the story using the second person pronouns to address the reader (you, your, yours)

Character: a person or animal in a literary work.

Question 35

dynamic character

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a character who changes as a result of a story events

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static character

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a character who dose not change much in the course of a work.

Question 37

character traits

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the qualities that make up a characters personality

Question 38

characterixation

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a writers development of a charters personality

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direct characterzation

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when a writer tells the reader about the character

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indirect characterization

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a writers metho of revealing the character indirectly through physical descriptions description of what the character think or description of what others think about the character or character words

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protagoist

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the main character in a work of literatur

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flat character

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a character that demonstrates only one aspect of personality

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antagonist

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character opposing the protagonist

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round character

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a character that demonstrates several different aspects of personality

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simile

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a figur of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as used to make a description more emhatic or viviid.

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metaphor

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expresses an idea by describing something that int literally true, comparing two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common.