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Literary Terms

This text provides an overview of important literary terms such as protagonist, antagonist, conflict, foreshadowing, characterization, mood, theme, point of view, irony, setting, tone, style, symbolism, parable, prose, regionalism, satire, stream of consciousness, allusion, anecdote, genre, parody, persona, pathos, personification, rhetoric, narrative, annotation, and motif, exploring their significance in literature.

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms

  2. Protagonist The chief actor in any literary work. The focus of interest • The term is usually preferable to hero or heroine because it can include characters such as villains or weak characters who are not aptly called protagonists.

  3. Antagonista character or force that opposes (literally, “wrestles”) the protagonist

  4. Conflict • A struggle between a character and some obstacle (for example another character or fate) or between internal forces, such as divided loyalties

  5. Internal A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single person External A struggle against some outside force such as another character, society as a whole, or some natural force Conflict

  6. Foreshadowing • The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

  7. Epiphany • A moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances

  8. Characterization • The presentation of a character, whether by direct description by showing the character in action, or by the presentation of other characters who help to define each other

  9. Indirect By what the character says By how the character looks and dresses By what the character thinks By what others say or think about the character By what the character does Direct By telling exactly what the character is like – cruel, kind, sneaky, brave Characterization

  10. Mood • The atmosphere, usually created by descriptions of the settings and characters

  11. Theme • The central idea of a work of literature. • The theme is the idea the writer wishes to convey about the subject. The theme must be expressed in a statement.

  12. What piece of literature expresses this theme? • Love is more powerful than family loyalty

  13. Point of View • The perspective from which a story is told • Omniscient- all knowing • Third person limited • First person

  14. Irony • A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality VERBAL what is said and what is meant are contradictory

  15. SITUATIONAL when what we expect to happen is opposite of what does happen

  16. DRAMATIC What the audience knows is different from what the character knows. The character is in a state of ignorance.

  17. Setting • The time and place of a story, play, or poem • The setting often contributes to the emotional effect • “It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season”

  18. Tone • The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character • Tone is conveyed through the writer’s choice of words, detail, syntax or imagery

  19. Style • The manner of expression, evident not only in the choice of words but in the use of sentence structure, characters, settings, and themes

  20. Symbolism • A person, a place, a thing or an event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well • Ex. A scale is an instrument for measuring weights, but it is also a symbol for _______________

  21. Parable • A short narrative that is al least in part allegorical and illustrates a moral or spiritual lesson

  22. Prose • Literature written in paragraph form

  23. Regionalism • fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. Influenced by Southwestern and Down East humor, between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century, this mode of writing became dominant in American literature.

  24. Satire • Literature that entertainingly attacks folly or vice; amusingly abusive writing. • Satire intends to change behavior • What television programs are satirical?

  25. Stream of Consciousness • The presentation of a a character’s unrestricted flow of thought, often with free associations and often without punctuation • Try it: Write a stream of consciousness about the most stressful (exciting) part of being a senior

  26. Allusion • A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth politics, sports, science or pop culture • She has a Mona Lisa smile.

  27. Anecdote • A short narrative, usually reporting an amusing event in the life of an important person

  28. Genre • Kind or type of literature • Fiction • Poetry • Drama • Nonfiction prose

  29. Parody • A humorous imitation of a literary work

  30. Persona • The speaker of a work • The voice or mouthpiece created by the author

  31. Pathos • Pity or sadness

  32. Personification • A kind of figurative language in which an inanimate object, animal, or other nonhuman is given human traits • Example: The cruel sea

  33. Rhetoric The art of effective speaking or writing

  34. Narrative • Writing or speaking that tells a story

  35. Annotation • A brief description of a work that is non judgemental

  36. Motif • A recurrent theme within a work, or a theme common to many works

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