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| Protagonist of Things Fall Apart |
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literary term in
"lacy lilting lilies" |
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| a person who opposes the protagonist, the “bad guy” ex. King Creon in Antigone |
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| characterization or character development |
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| the methods an author uses to describe the character |
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| the decisive moment in the action, the point of highest action |
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| the story’s “problem,” oftentimes the protagonist is opposed by some other character or force, it is what usually drives the plot |
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a method used to build suspense by giving hints about what is to come. An example from Romeo and Juliet:
I fear too early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death. |
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| : exaggeration ex. In Macbeth, after the character murders King Duncan and sees blood on his hands he states,” Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” Obviously he does not need a whole ocean of water to clean the blood off, he just feels guilty! |
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| words appealing to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste |
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| when the reverse happens of what is expected, when a speaker states the opposite of what he means |
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| A comparison between two items that does NOT use “like” or as” ex. “the winds of change” |
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| Two opposing ideas that can’t both be true ex: jumbo shrimp |
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| parallelism or parallel structure |
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A repetition of sentences using the same structure
The world will little not nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here. |
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| Giving human characteristics to an object or idea. Ex. “rain danced on my roof. |
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A comparison between two items that DOES use “like” or “as”
smart as a whip |
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an object that represents an idea
ex. the conch in Lord of the Flies
or the glass animals in The Glass Menagerie |
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| a repeated idea throughout a literary work, adds unity to the work |
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| author of the Oedipus cycle |
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| author of Heart of Darkness |
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| author of Great Expectations |
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| author of The Scarlet Letter |
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