Literary+Term

=Deasia  = = = =__Literary Terms and Technique__ = 1.plot-- The action sequence of a narrative;what happens.



2 .Theme--The main message of the story.

3. Climax--High point of interest in a story.



4. Exposition--The Beginning of a story;setting is created,characters are introduced.

5. Denouement-The end of the story, after the climax.

6. In medias Res--A story that begins in the middle of a sequence of events. Previous events are made evident with Flashback. 7. Topic-- Expressed in one or two words;does not express a view of life. 8. Rising Action--Longest part of the story;where conflict are introduced. 9. Falling Action--Explains the complications of the cimax to the reader. 10. Conflict--Struggle between opposing forces. 11. Metaphor--A figure of speech in which something is spoken of as thought it were something else;direct comparison of two unlike things.



13. Personification--A figure of speech in which something not human is treated as if it were human. 14. Symbolism--the use of something to represent something beyond itself. 15. Alliteration--repetition of the same initial consonant sound. 16. Situational irony--Exist when what happens is the exact opposite of what is expected to happens.

17 .Verbal Irony--Exists when what happened is the exact opposite of what is expected to happen. 18. Dramatic Irony--Occurs when the audience has important information that the character do not. 19. Onomatopoeia--The use of a word or phase that actually inmates or suggests the sound of what it describes. 20.Hyperbole-- A great exaggeration. 21. Foreshadowing--use of clues or hints of what will happen later. 22. First person narration-- Narrated by "I"

23. Second person narration--narrated by you(doesn't happens in literature) 24. Third person limited--narration limited to one character's thought and feeling as the author own;he or she

25. Third person omniscient--Narration in which the author know and reveals several character's thought and feeling. 26 .Narrative--A story told in fiction,nonfiction,poetry,or drama. 27. Characterization--The act of creating and developing characters 28. Setting--Time and place of action. 29. Short story--A short work of fiction

30. Narrator--Speaker or character who tells a story 31. Tone--The writers attitude towards his or her audience and subject 32. Protagonist--Main character or hero 33. Antagonist--A character or force in conflict with the main character. 34. Fiction--Prose writing telling about imaginary characters and their traits. 35. Direct Characterization--when the author tells what the characters look like, does, say,and how other characters react to them

36. Indirect Characterization-- when the author tells what the characterization-- when the author directly tell what the characters traits are. 37. Dynamic character--One who develops or grows during the story. 38. Static character-- Character who doesn't change or grow during the story. 39. Novel--A long work of fiction. 40. Sensory Language--writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses. 41 .Cliche-- A phrase that has used so long that its meaning is lost. 42. Allusion--A reference in a work of literature to a character, place..or situation from another work of literature,music,or art. 43. Flashback--Narration of events before the normal time sequence of the plot. 44. Analogy--When one thing is explained in terms of another. 45. Understatement--When a response is deliberately incomplete. 46. Oxymoron--Two words that seems to mean the opposite of each other.

47. Biography-- A work about a person's life written by another person. 48. Autobiography--A person writing about his/her own life. 49. Nonfiction-- Prose writing presenting ideas or telling about real people, places,objects or events. 50. Figurative language--Writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally. 51. Legend--Story about someone local or from a particular region. 52. Myth--A fictional account that explains the actions of gods or causes of natural phenomena. 53. Caricature-- A drawing of a person in which one feature is exaggerated. 54. Anecdote--A brief story about an interesting,amusing, or strange event. 55. Genre--A division or type of literature. 56 .Prose--Ordinary form of written language.

57.Mood-- Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. 58. Diction--Word choice. 59. Denotation--Dictionary meaning all a word. 60. Connotation--Meaning of a word in context of a work. 61. Narrative essay--Tells a story. 62. Descriptive essay--Conveys an impression about a person, place,thing or idea. 63 .Persuasive essay-- Tries to get reader to do something or accept writer's point-of-view. 64. Expository essay--Gives information,discusses ideas,or explains a process. 65. Satire--Using humor to make fun of or change things. 66. Dialect--Form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. 67. Dialogue--Conversion between characters. 68. Suspense--A feeling of events in a literary work. 69.Paradox--A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. 70. Rhetorical question--A question asked for effect, not to be answered. 71. Free Verse--Poetry without fixed meter or pattern. 72. Blank Verse--Poetry written in unrhyming iambic pentameter. 73 .Soliloquy--One character,on stage,thinking aloud alone. 74. Couplet--A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter. 75. Tragedy--A work of literature, especially a play, that result in catastrophe for the main character. 76. Monalogue--Speech by one character in a play,story,or poem. 78. Foil--A character who is contrasted with another character. 79. Aside--A short speech delivered by an actor in a play expressing his/her thoughts. 80. Drama--A story written to be performed by actors. 81. Repetition-- More than one use of any element of language. 82. Parody--Making fun of a work by writing something similar but exaggerated. 83. Dramatic poetry--Poetry that includes the technique of drama. 84. Rhyme scheme--A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. 85.Round characters--A character with many different traits. 86. Archetype--Original pattern or model;all other are copies. 87. Stanza--A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit. 88 . Narrative poem--A poem that tells a story. 89. Epic simile-- extended simile in a long epic poem,often several lines. 90. Lyrics--A poem expressing thought and feelings. 91. Epic-- A long narrative poem that traces that adventures of a hero, usually a hero with super human strength. 92. Ballad--A short, musical poem usually focused on a single situation,often love or death. 93. Haiku--A three-line poem usually about nature. 94. Rhythm-- The pattern created by arranging stressed and unstressed syllables.

95. Rhyme--Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all succeeding consonants sounds. 96 .Assonance--The repetition of vowel sounds. 97. Consonance--The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words 98. Subjective--Based on opinion or feelings. 99. Objective--Based on facts/evidence. 100. Chronological Order--The order in which something happened.