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Literary terms
Literary terms
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English
8th Grade
11/10/2008

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Setting
Definition
Time and place of the action in a story.
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Characterization
Definition
Revealing the personality of a character.
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Foreshadowing
Definition
Hints a writer Provides that suggests futer events in a story and provides suspense.
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Conflict
Definition
A struggle between opposing forces, either internal or external.
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Mood
Definition
Emotion attitude or feeling created by an author in a literary work.
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Hubris
Definition
Exeeding pride and arrogance, feelingas if one is equal to the gods in power.
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Stereotype
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To make assumptions about some one due to their race, gender, age, religion, ECT.
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Piont of view
Definition
The view from which the story is told.
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Simile
Definition
Comparison of two things using like or as in literatureor poetry.
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Metaphor
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A comparison without using like or as in literature or poetry.
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Narrative
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A collection of events that tells a story placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing.
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Expository
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A kind of writing that explains true things, people, places, or events, or how to do something.
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Genre
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A type or category of literature, (also film and music) that has certain shared features.
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Horror
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A type of literature that has the main goal of terrifying the reader.
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Science Fiction
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Stories that guess or foretell what the future will be like. Often the speculation is linked with science.
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