Literary Terms2

Question 1

Foreshadowing

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Use of clues to hint at or suggest events that have yet to occur

Question 2

Genre

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A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form.

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Inciting incident

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The event responsible for the conflict of the

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Irony

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Generally the contrast between what is expected from the events and what actually

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Verbal irony

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The writer or speaker says one thing but mean something different

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Dramatic irony

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Where is the reader or audience knows something

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Memoir

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Can be compared with autobiography, but this form may only depict a small portion of a life

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Mood/atmosphere

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The feeling the author creates in the mind of the reader

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Narrator

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The speaker or character who tells the story

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Motivation

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The reason the character things feels or ask in a particular way

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Narration

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Writing that tells the story

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Nonfiction

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Pro se writing that presents and explains ideas about real person’s places or events

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Novel

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Long piece of Fiction

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Plot

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The sequence of events in a story

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Point of view first person

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The vantage point of the story is through the main characters eyes

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Point of view second person

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In second person the pronoun you is used in both singular and plural. It is rarely used

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Point of view third person limited

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Where the vantage point is not one of the characters in the story.

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Third person point of view omniscient

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This is the least limited point of view because although the narrator is not a character in the story, the narrator has knowledge of all the characters

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Prose

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The ordinary form of written language.

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Protagonist

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The main character in a literary work

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Resolution

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Where the conflict is solved in the story closed

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Satire

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An attack on or criticism of any Foley or vice in the form of scathering humor

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Setting

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The time and place in which a literary work is set

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Short story

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Brief work of fiction

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Speaker

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The imaginary voice assumed by the writer

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Suspense

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The uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what will happen next in the story

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Symbol

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Anything that stands for or represents something else

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Theme

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The central message, concerns, or insight into life expressed into a literary work

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Tone

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The speakers attitude toward the subject an audience of the story