Literary Terms final Flashcards
Personality of a fictitious character is revealed through speech and actions appearance etc
Indirect characterization
Process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives phrases or epithets
Direct characterization
Main idea or underlined meeting that can be stated directly or indirectly
Theme
A person in a novel play or movie or the mental or moral qualities distinctive to an individual
Character
Figure of speech in which words are used in a way that they’re intended meeting is different from actual words
Irony
Anxiety or state of uncertainty or excitement about resolution of something
Suspense
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
Story with a fully developed game but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel
Short story
Description of a character in a novel
Characterization
Struggle between two opposing forces
Conflict
Characters representation in a story; giving nonhuman things human qualities
Personification
Expression design to call something to my without mentioning it; illusion in the Bible Shakespeare or mythology
Allusion
Comparison using words like or as in the sentence that compares two unlike things
Simile
Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book play or movie
Dialogue
Be a warning or indication of a future event
Foreshadowing
Particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group
Dialect
Spoken or written representation or count of a person object or event
Description
One who doesn’t change or evolve and who can be fully described in a single sentence
Flat character
Characters were most like real people and are fully described
Round character
Struggle between literary or dramatic characters and it outside force that drives the dramatic action of the plot
External conflict
Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, resolution that creates the plot suspense
Internal conflict
Account of someone’s life written by someone else
Biography
Poem with four lines
Quatrain
In object or image that represents something else
Symbol
Attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience
Tone
Gives background on what one is going to read
Exposition
Literary character who undergoes an important change in personality
Dynamic character
Visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work
Imagery
Comparison of two unlike things
Metaphor
Effect or feeling you get for the narrative
Mood
Character recounts the event of a novel or narrative poem
Narrator
Story written to be performed by actors
Drama
High/turning point in the story
Climax
Long work of fiction
Novel
Causing people to do or believe something anything to convince
Persuasion
Time or place of the action
Setting
Poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes
Sonnet
Sequence of events in a literary work
Plot
Perspective of individuals in different situations in a literary work
Point of view
Character who provides contrast to another character
Foil
Specific type of music drama film or writing
Genre
Main character in a literary work
Protagonist
Where everything is resolved in a story
Resolution
Form of nonfiction in which writer tells own story
Autobiography
Words are used to suggest opposite of what is meant
Verbal irony
Character that doesn’t change
Static character
Ordinary form of written language
Prose
Work of literature mainly plays that result in a catastrophe for the characters
Tragedy
Events that follow climax and leads to resolution
Falling action
A story or tail with 2 or more levels of meaning
Allegory
Character or force in conflict with The protagonist
Antagonist
Turning point in a story in which it doesn’t end the way you thought
Anticlimax
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
A pair of rhyming lines
Couplet
Poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama
Dramatic poetry
Rhyming Words appear in the same line
Internal rhyme
Rhyming words come at the ends of lines
End rhyme
Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
Lyric poem
Poem that tells a story
Narrative poem
Use of words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
One of the three major types of literature
Poetry
Use of any element of a language more than once
Repitition
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Rhyme
A regular pattern of writing words in a poem
Rhyme scheme
Pattern of beats or stresses and spoken or written language
Rhythm
Formal division of lines in a poem
Stanza
