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| A story or poem in which characters, settings & events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
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| what happens in a story: the events or conflicts. If the action is well organized, it will develop into a pattern or plot |
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| a reference to someone or something that is known for history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science or some other branch of culture |
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| A technique by which an auther purposely suggests town or more different meaning in a work (sometimes conflicting) |
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| a comparison made between 2 things to show how they are alike |
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| the perosn or thing working against the protagonist or hero of a work. When this is a person, he/she is usually the villian |
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| An author's account or story of his own life |
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| a song or peom that tells a story |
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| the story of a person's life written by another person |
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| a list of things, people or events |
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| an individual in a story, play or poem |
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| the method an author uses to reveal or describe his characters & the various personalities |
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| the auther plainly states what the character is like: Kind, generous... |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| The author describes how the character looks, what the character thinks, feels, says, does or how other characters feel or behave toward the character; the reader then must infer what the character is like |
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| Chanes significantly as a resurl to the story's action |
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| Does not change much inthe course of the story |
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| is fully developed as an individual, complex as real people are |
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| has few personality ftraits & is often a stereotype. They can be described in a single phrse, such as the nosy neighbor, the clown, or the loyal sidekick |
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| High point or turning point in a work, usually the most intense point |
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| a word or phrase which is so overused that it is no longer effective in most writing situations, as in "as busy as a bee" and "I slept like a log" |
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| literature dealing with the comic or serious life in a light, humorous, or satiric manner. In comedy, human errors or problems appear funny |
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| the problem in a stroy that trigger the action. There are 5 typed of conflict |
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| 1 character in a story has a problem with 1 or more of the other characteres |
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| a character has a conflict or problem with some element of society (the school, law, the accepted way of doing things....) |
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| a character has trouble deciding what to do in a particular situation |
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| a character has problem with some natural happening: a snowstorm, an avalanche, the bitter cold....elements of nature |
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| man vs fate (God) conflict |
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| a character has to battle what seems to be an uncontrollable problem. Whenever the problem seems to be a strange or unbelievable coincidence, fate can be considered as the cause of the conflict |
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the associations & emotional overtones that have become attached to word ro phrase, in addition to its distionary definition |
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| the precise dictionary meaning of a word or phrase |
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| a way of speaking that is characteristic of a social group or of the population of a particular region |
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| a sriter or speaker's choice of words |
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| In French, the word mean unraveling. It's the point in the story when all the mysties are unraveled, the conflicts are resolved, and all questions raised by the plot are answered (concusion, resolution) |
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the conversation carried on by the characters in a literary work |
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| a descriptive word or phrase that is typically used to characterize a person or thing NYC is "the big apple" |
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| a piece of prose that expresses an individual's point of view; usually it is a short series of paragraphs that combine to make a complete piece of writing |
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| that part of the plot in which the reader is given information about the characters, conflicts and setting, usually at the beginning of the story |
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| the action of a ply or story which works out the decision arrived at during the climax. It ends with the resolution |
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| literature with one purpose: to make the audience laugh |
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| a literary devise used to create a special meaning through emotional & connotative use of wording |
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| an opposing or contract of ideas: "as not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country" JFK |
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| a poetic device in which the poet talks to an absent person, place or thing as if it were presern: "o Captiain: My Captaion: OUr fearful trip is done" |
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an exaggeration or overstatement
My dad had a cow when he saw my grades |
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a form of understatemetn in which something is expressed by the negation of the contrary:
He was a man of no small means |
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the a comparison of 2 unlike things in which no words or comparison (like or as) are needed
That new kid in our class is really a squirrel. |
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