Term
|
Definition
| The act or creating and developing a character by showing or telling what the character looks like, says, or does, as well as the wan other characters react to him or her. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The writer's attitude toward her audience and subject. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The time and place of the action in a work of literature. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The central character of a story who serves as a focus for its themes and incidents and as the principal rationale for its development. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader. Main types are 1st person, 2nd person and 3rd person. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The sequence of events in a literary work. The four parts are exposition, complication, climax, and resolution. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A type of figurative language is which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The speaker or character that tells a story. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The feeling evoked in the reader by a literary work or passage. Often can be described in one word such as light-hearted, frightening, or despairing |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Use in literature to create word pictures for the reader by using details or sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile, and personification. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A conversation between characters. Quotation marks are usually used to indicate a speaker's words. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A struggle between opposing forces. Types are external and internal. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The major character-in a narrative or drama who works against the hero. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The highpoint of interest or suspense in a novel, story, or play. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Literary techniques that portray differences between appearances and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention. |
|
|
