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Literary terms
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7th Grade
03/26/2009

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Act
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An act is a major section of a play.
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Antagonist
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A force working againest protoginists.
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Authors Purpose
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Is his or her reasoning for creating a particular work.
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Autobiography
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The story of a persons life told by that person.
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Biography
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The story of a person told by someone else.
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Cause and Effect
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Two events are related as Cause and Effect when one is brought out by another.
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Character
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A person, animal, magical creature that takes part in a story.
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Character traits
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Aspects of a charaters emotions.
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Characterization
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Tequices used by the author to create a character.
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Climax
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is the plot of a story or play the climax is the part of the maximum interest.
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Conflict
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Is a struggle between opposite forces.
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Exposition
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Is usually found at the beginning of a story or play that serves to introduce the main characters or the setting and establish the conflict.
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External conflict
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Is a struggle againest another character.
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Internal conflict
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Is a struggle that is within the character.
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Science fiction
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Is a fiction based on realor imagined scientific developments.
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Aliteration
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Is a repitition of a sound or letter.
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Anecdote
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Is a short entertaining account of a person or event.
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Static Character
Definition
Characters that change little
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Dynamic
Definition
Characters that change significally.
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Chronological order
Definition
A time order in which events happen.
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Comparison
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The process of pointing what two or more things have in common.
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Contrast
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The process of pointing out differences.
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Description
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Is the process by which the author creates picture in readers minds.
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Dialogue
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The words that characters speak aloud in dialogue
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Drama
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Is an act or play meant to be performed by actors.
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Essay
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A short piece of writing that explains a single subject
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Exposition
Definition
The beginning part of the book.
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Falling Action
Definition
All of the events leading from the plot to the climax.
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Fantasy
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Is a short story that takes place in an unreal setting and often involve magic or humans with superhuman powers.
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Fiction
Definition
Writing that tells an imaginary story.
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Flashback
Definition
is an interuption that takes you back to an earlier time.
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Foreshadow
Definition
Are hints that future events.
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Genre
Definition
A type of category of literature.
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Historical Fiction
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Is fiction that is set in the past.
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Inference
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Is a logical guess or conclusion based on evidence.
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Irony
Definition
Is a conflict between what is expected and what is happening.
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Main Idea
Definition
The principal of the writer, What the story is mostly about.
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Mood
Definition
Is a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers.
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Motivation
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Is the reason why characters act, feel, or think about something.
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Narrative
Definition
It tells a story
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Narrator
Definition
Is a person who tells the story.
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Novel
Definition
Is a longer and more complex story.
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Plot
Definition
Is a storys sequence of related events that make up the story.
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