Section A - LOTF Key terms Flashcards
Define the key terms/Identify the key term from the definition.
Democracy
A way of governing which depends on the will of the people. Citizens choose leaders to represent them in elections.
Dictatorship
A form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without limitations.
A character who contrasts with another character.
Foil
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Foreshadowing.
Symbol/Symbolism
An object that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.
When the reader has a greater awareness than the fictional characters.
Dramatic irony.
Characterisation.
The creation of a fictional character.
Rising Action
A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
Protagonist.
The leading character or one of the major characters
The principal opponent or foil of the main character.
Antagonist.
References, within a literary text, to another work of literature.
Allusion.
The insertion of background information within a story or narrative. (This is the beginning of a narrative when the reader is given information about the setting, characters’ backstories, prior plot events.)
Exposition.
A system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.
Hierarchy.
Pathetic Fallacy
Term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human.
The final part of a narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Denouement.
