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Character |
a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work. |
Anatogist |
a character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist. |
Protagonist |
the main character in a literary work |
Diction |
manner in which we express words; the wording used |
denotation |
dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have. |
connotation |
set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning; can be personal, based on individual experiences. |
Imagery |
words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. |
MOOD |
feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
Plot |
the sequence of events |
Exposition |
introduction; introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation. |
Rising Action |
part of plot that begins as the conflict is introduced; adds complications |
Climax |
point of greatest emotional intensity; the turning point |
Falling Action |
follows the climax and reveals its results. |
Resolution |
concludes the falling action; reveals the outcome of the conflict. |
Conflict |
struggle between opposing forces; two types |
External conflict |
outside force, such as another character, nature, society, or fate. Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature |
Internal conflict |
a character who is torn between different courses of action; Man vs. Himself |
flashback |
literary device which earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted. |
Foreshadowing |
author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later |
Suspense |
growing interest and excitement readers experience while reading. |
Point of View |
perspective from which a story is told |
First-person |
told by a character who uses the first-person pronoun “I”. |
Third-person limited |
the narrator uses third-person pronouns such as “he” and “she” to refer to the characters |
setting |
the time and place of the action. |
Style |
distinctive way an author uses language. |
theme |
central message, concern, or purpose |
Tone |
reflection of a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work |
figure of speech |
specific device or kind of figurative language. |
Metaphor |
type of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common. |
Simile |
figure of speech that compares seemingly unlike things. Uses like or as. |
Oxymoron |
combination of seemingly contradictory words. |
Personification |
an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities or characteristics. |
Alliteration |
repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, at the beginning of words. |