Literary Terms I

Question 0

Persons appearing in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem

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Character

Question 1

Part in a story where the outcome usually settles the conflict(s) and brings story to satisfactory and logical ending

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Resolution

Question 2

Main idea or basic meaning of a literary work

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Theme

Question 3

Anything invented or imagined, especially a prose narrative

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Fiction

Question 4

Narrative prose fiction that is shorter than a novel

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Short story

Question 6

Sequence of events or happenings in a literary work

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Plot

Question 7

Way the writer uses language

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Style

Question 8

Part in the story where the outcome of the climax is revealed

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Falling action

Question 9

Time and place of action in a narrative

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Setting

Question 9

Quality of literary work that make reader uncertain or tense of what’s about to happen

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Suspense

Question 9

Use of hints to suggest what action is to come

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Foreshadowing

Question 10

Struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

Question 13

Combines sadness in a humorous way

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Tragic-comic

Question 14

Element of fiction work together to create one mood

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Single effect

Question 15

Sow,thing that happens that wasn’t expected

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Irony

Question 16

When the reader or listener has information that is not known by the character involved

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Dramatic irony

Question 17

Form of language that has no metrical structure

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Prose

Question 18

Attitude a writer takes toward his/her subjects, characters, or readers

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Tone

Question 19

When the speakers or writers say the opposite of what they mean

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Verbal irony

Question 20

Vantage point from which a narrative if told

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Point of view

Question 22

Part in the story where the author captures the readers attention by establishing a basic conflict which triggers rising action

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Incentive moment

Question 23

When what happens in a particular situation is the opposite of what is expected

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Situational irony

Question 23

Point of highest intensity: emotional, interest, or suspense; pint that determines outcome of story

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Climax/turning point/crisis

Question 24

Man vs. Himself

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Internal conflict

Question 24

Part in the story where background info is given

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Exposition

Question 26

Narrative within narrative

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Framework story

Question 27

State of being nameless

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Anonymity

Question 28

State of being universal over the world

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Universality

Question 28

Anything that has meaning in itself and also stands for something larger than itself

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Symbol

Question 30

Exists to expand our insight

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Interpretive literature

Question 31

Vice is punished and virtue is rewarded

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Poetic justice

Question 32

Placing two things side-by-side for contrast

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Juxtaposition

Question 33

Feeling the writer creates on the reader

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Mood

Question 34

Picking fun at jargon

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Mock jargon

Question 35

Series of difficulties forming the central action of narrative

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Rising action/complications

Question 36

The personality a character displays, the means by which author reveals personal

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Characterization

Question 37

Tells about the character

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Direct characterization

Question 37

Type of fiction where a mystery is solved by a detective

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Detective story

Question 38

Special language of a group of people

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Jargon

Question 38

To entertain by taking the reader away from the real world

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Escape literature

Question 40

Describes a character

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Indirect characterization

Question 41

Knowing everything

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Omniscient

Question 42

Man vs. Man, man vs. Society, man vs. Nature, man vs. Unknown

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External conflict