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2011 English Midterm Literary Terms
These are my literary terms that I need to know for my midterm
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10th Grade
01/09/2011

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Antagonist
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is the character in the story that is against the protagonist, who is the character that the audience wants to be successful.
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Denouement
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the unraveling of the plot before the conclusion.
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Man vs. Society
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when the values that everyone holds dear are being tested. the character may die as a result of the testing of those values.
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Man vs. Fate
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this is when a character follows an unknown destiny. this often leads to internal conflict.
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Irony
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the use of words to convey a meaning opposite of what the words really mean.
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Paradox
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a statement that seems absurd and self- contradictory but in reality expresses a possible truth
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Protagonist
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the leading hero or heroine in a dramatic work.
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Theme
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a unifying or dominant idea in a work of art.
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First Person Point of View
Definition
a story by a character
central narrator: character telling the story "I".
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Climax
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the highest most intense point of a story.
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Hyperbole
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an extreme exaggeration.
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Man vs. Himself
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is an internal type of conflict. In this type of conflict, a character must weigh the pros and cons before taking any type of action.
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Metaphor
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a comparison between two unlike things not using like or as.
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Mood
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the feelings that arise in a reader while reading a novel.
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Tone
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the feelings that the author is trying to convey to the reader in a novel.
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Personification
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giving traits of a person to something that is not a person.
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Setting
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is both where and when the story is taking place.
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Simile
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a comparison using like or as
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Man vs. Man
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a conflict which pitted man against man.
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Man vs. Nature
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is when a character comes in conflict with a force of nature. this tests the will and strength of someone to survive. but it also displays the insignificance of one human life in the whole picture.
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Imagery
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is when an author describes an object so descriptively that one can almost see it or feel like they are there.
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Narrator
Definition
the person that is telling the story.
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Symbol
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is something in a story that is used to represent something else.
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Foreshadowing
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is when some plot event happens in a novel that hints at what may happen at the end of the novel.
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Round characterization
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are complex and many sided characters within the story
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Flat characterization
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is a character that does not go through any type of change throughout the novel.
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Dynamic characterization
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by the end of the story, an important and basic change in some aspect of the character has occurred.
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static characterization
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are characters that are the same at the end of the novel as they were at the beginning.
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Second Person Point of View
Definition
occurs in a story only when the character is being referred to as "you". IT is very experimental.
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Third Person Point of View
Definition
the author is telling the story.
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Peripheral Narrator
Definition
narrator outside of the character they are describing
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