Literary terms

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A brief work of fiction which contains imaginary characters and events

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Short Story

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A prose (everyday writing) writing that tells about imaginary characters and events

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Fiction

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The main sequence of events in a literary work (who, what, when, where, why)

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Plot

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The act of creating and developing a character

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Characterization

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Directly describing a characters traits

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Direct Characterization

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Use context clues and the behavior of the characters to find out about them

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Indirect Characterization

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The perspective from which a story is told

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Point Of View

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When the person in the story tells the story

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First Person Narrative

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When the narrator is using omniscient or limited point of view

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Third Person Narrative

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Time and place if the action; establishes the mood

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Setting

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Anything that stands for or represents something else

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Symbol

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Something that stands for something else and is well known

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Conventional Symbol

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Something that stands for something else and only one person knows

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Personal Symbol

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Writer’s attitude towards his or her audience and subject

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Tone

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General term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality expectations and result or meaning and intention

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Irony

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There is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true

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Dramatic Irony

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Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

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Verbal Irony

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An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the character or the reader of the audience

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Irony Of SItuation

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Central idea, concern, or purpose usually about life

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Theme

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A writing or speech that explains a process or presents information exposes the story

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Exposition

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Struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

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Man vs. himself

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Internal Conflict

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Man vs. nature; man vs. man; man vs. society;

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External Conflict

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The main character

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Protagonist

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The character who opposes the protagonist

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Antagonist

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The high point of the story

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Climax

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High point of the story; emotional’ can be more than one;

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Dramatic Climax

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High point of the story; only one turning point in the story

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Technical Climax

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Difficult circumstances that come about through the characters attempt to find solutions to his/her problems

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Complications

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End of the story; how the conflict is resolved

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Resolution

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The feeling of curiosity or uncertainty and the outcome of events about what the reader knows

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Suspense

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Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur in a literary work

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Foreshadowing

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a conclusion or logical prediction on the basis of evidence or reasoning

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Inference

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A widely held but fixed and over simplified image or idea of a particular person or thing

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Sterotype

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A scene from an earlier point in time

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Flashback

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Feeling created in a story by the reader

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Mood

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Secondary sequence of events

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Subplot

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Person or object that is not in its correct chronological time period

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Anachronism