Terms Flashcards
Allegory
Uses symbols
Allusion
Reference to a person place thing
Ambiguity
Multiple meanings
Secret unknown or unclear
Antagonist
Character who actions or motive work against the hero
Archetype
Character action or situation that represent human nature
Denotation
Literal meaning
Connotation
Implications
Frame story
Story that contains stories within it
Foreshadowing
Writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
Epiphany
Moment in the story where a character achieves realization
Omniscient
Can know thoughts of more than one person
Motif
Pattern of images recurrent idea
Irony
A way of speaking or writing that is opposite of what the character author know to be true
Regionalism
Literature identified with a specific place
Realism
Literature that present life as it is lived by real people