LITERARY TERMS

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Character in a story that works against the main character in some way

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Antagonist

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Story poem or picture that can be interpreted or reveal a hidden meaning. Typically moral

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Allegory

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Specific point when expectations are raised but a sudded twist or disappointment happens

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Anticlimax

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Story of a persons life written by someone other than the subject of the work

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Biogrpahh

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Fictional story that is shorter than a novel. Usually focus on one plot and main character

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Short story

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Figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things. Draws resemblance with like or as

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Simile

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Figure of speech where an inanimate object or animal is given human like qualifies

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Personification

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Exaggerationz to create emphasis or effect

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Hyperbole

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When a writer makes direct statements about a characters personality and tells what the character is like

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Direct characterization

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Writer indirectly reveals info about a characters personality through their thoughts words or actions or how others think or feel towards them

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Indirect characterization

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Any struggle between opposing forces usually the main character struggles against some other force

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Conflict

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A text that xplakns the features of something. Uses language to help readers I their minds about the thing or person being described

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Description

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Struggle betwen ligament or dramatic character and an outside force which drives dramatic action to the plot

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External conflict

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Struggle that takes place in the protagonists mind and through which a character reaches a new understating or dynamic change

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Internal conflict

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Language used by people of a specific area class district or ant other group of people. Elaborates geographic and social background of any character

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Dialect

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

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Dialogue

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Complete features and traits that from the idividual nature or someone or something

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Character

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Complex and undergo development sometimes to surprise the reader. Character in fiction whose psonality background and other features are fully defined by the author

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Round character

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Easily recognized character type in fiction who may or may not be fully portrayed but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author

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Flat character

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Process by which the writer reveals the personality of the chaRacter through direct or indirect characterization.

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A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or art

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Hinting at something that might occur later in the future

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Foreshadowing

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Literary technique that keeps a reader on edge and wanting to continue reading to see what happens

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Suspense

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Literary device where the actual definition of the words used is diffeent from the interpreted meaning

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Irony