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Literary Terms #1 - 20
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11th Grade
10/06/2008

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Allusion
Definition
a brief, often indirect reference to a person, place or work of art.
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Antagonist
Definition
a person (or thing) opposing the protagonist or hero.
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Anticlimax
Definition
a decent in importance, interest,etc., contrasting sharply with.
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Aside
Definition
a actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by the characters on stage.
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Ballad
Definition
a narrative song, usually handed down in the oral tradition and originally.
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Character
Definition
fictional personality created by an author.
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Climax
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a point of greatest intensity of action, interest, or emotion in a story. It usually follows a build-up. It usually occurs at a turning point.
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Comedy
Definition
a play in which the story is designed to interest the audience.
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Denouement
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the final untying or end of the plot; in French the word means unknotting.
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Elegy
Definition
a traditional poetic form that treats death in a formal philosophic way.
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Epic
Definition
a long narrative poem, exalted in style and heroic in theme.
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Exposition
Definition
in fiction that part where the author conveys the necessary background material.
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Farce
Definition
a comedy employing ludicrous or exaggerated effects or situation.
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Flashback
Definition
an interruption in the logical time sequence to relate a scene or episode that occurred prior the opening situation.
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Foreshadowing
Definition
hints or clues of things to come.
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Free verse
Definition
poetry written with rhythm and other poetic devices but without meter or rhythm scheme.
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
a pair of rhythm verse lines in iambic pentameter.
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Imagery
Definition
pictures and impressions made with words.
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Lyric
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any short poem or passage in a poem, intended to mainly express a state of mind.
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Metaphor
Definition
likeness expressed in figurative language in which one thing is compared to another without the use of "like" or " as".
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