Literary Terms to Know Flashcards
Flat Character
One Trait
Archetype
pattern in story
Round Character
Many Traits, quirky belly man
Static Character
doesn’t change
Dynamic Character
changes
Foil Character
contrasts main character to show how cool main guy is
Stock Character
same old stereotyped ones
4 Types of Conflicts
Person v Person (other)
Person v Nature
Person v Society
Person v Self
Denotation
dictionary definition
Connotation
other meaning/ feeling of word
Dialect
lang similar to a region
Colloquial
convos, informal
Jargon
vocab relating to certain careers
Vernacular
terms not known to everyone
Mood
how you feel about it
Freytag’s Pyramid
pattern of a fictional work
6 Parts of Freytag’s Pyramid
- Expo
- Incite
- Rise
- Climax
- Fall
- Resolution
4 Plot Methods
- Flashback = past
- Foreshadow = future
- Subplot = 2nd story develop independently of the 1st one, same time
- Parallel plot = 2 similar, separate stories
5 POVs
- 1st
- 2nd
- 3rd limited = narrator knows thinking of couple people
- 3rd omni = narrator knows everything, god-like
- 3rd objective = narrator doesn’t know thinking of anyone
ranking: obj < limit < omni
Epiphany
ohhhhhh moment
Apostrophe
talking to dead person
Metonymy
replace one thing with close word
Oxymoron
two opps close to each other
Paradox
impossible but true
Synecdoche
replace whole by part
Assonance + Consonance
repeat vowel vs repeat consonant sounds
Allegory
story symbolizes smth big like religion
3 Ironies
- Verbal = says one, means another = sarcasm
- Situational = surprising thing happens = lifeguard drown
- Dramatic = you know, person doesn’t
Allusion
reference to something = myth, religion, history, etc.
Motif
thing that shows up a lot in a story, reps something related to theme
