Literary+Terms

**Plot** - Plot is the organization of character and action in a work of narrative or drama in order to achieve particular effects **Introduction** - The act or proccess of the introduction **Rising Action** - A series of events that lead to the climax of the story usually conflicts or struggles with protagonist **Climax** - Something working figuratively, or seemingly working its way toward **Conclusion** - The close or last part **Setting** - The position or direction in wich something is set **Antagonist** - One who opposes and contends against another **Protagonist** - Character meant to be concerned **Round Character** - A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it **Flat Character** - A flat character is a character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story **Dynamic Character** - A dynamic character is a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story **Static Character** - Two dimensional **Conflict Types** - Situational irony **Metaphor** - Metaphor can be described as a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in another important way **Personification** - A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. **Simile** - A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared **Allusion** - An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned **Oxymoron** - A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side **Euphemism** - I s a word or phrase used in place of a term that originally could not be spoken out loud **Foreshadowing** - Is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in his story **Point of View** - Third person, Second Person, First person **Omniscient** - Someone who has total knowledge **Satire** - A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous **Symbol** - Something that represents something else by association resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible. **Theme** - A topic of discourse or discussion a. **Dramatic**- I s a situation in which the reader or audience knows more about the immediate circumstances or future events of a story than a character it self b. **Verbal**- O ccurs when the words of a character or narrator have an implicit meaning as well as an ostensible one c. **Situational**- A n outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected **Imagery**- A set of mental pictures or images
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