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| a story or narrative that teaches a moral/truth |
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repetition of a successtion of words with the same sound/letter
ex: the river running around the rock |
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| a reference—whether explicit or implied, to history, the Bible, myth, literature, painting, music, and so on--that suggests the meaning or generalized implication of details in the story, poem, or play. |
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| a neutral term for a character who opposes the leading male or female character. See hero/heroine and protagonist. |
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| a plot or character element that recurs in cultural or cross-cultural myths such as "the quest" or "descent into the underworld" or "scapegoat." |
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| (1) a fictional personage who acts, appears, or is referred to in a work; (2) a combination of a person's qualities, especially moral qualities, so that such terms as "good" and "bad," "strong" and "weak," often apply. See nature and personality. |
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| complex characters, often major characters, who can grow and change and "surprise convincingly"—that is, act in a way that you did not expect from what had gone before but now accept as possible, even probable, and "realistic." |
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| a fictional character, often but not always a minor character, who is relatively simple, who is presented as having few, though sometimes dominant, traits, and who thus does not change much in the course of a story. See round character. |
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| a poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, usually in founding a nation or developing a culture, and uses elevated language and a grand, high style. |
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| usually applied to language that uses figures of speech. Figurative language heightens meaning by implicitly or explicitly representing something in terms of some other thing, the assumption being that the "other thing" will be more familiar to the reader. |
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| writers use of hints or clues to indicate events meaning of words |
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| distinct types in which literary works can be grouped |
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| figure of speechin which trust is exaggerated for humorous effect |
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| broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. |
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| a plot device in which a character holds a position or has an expectation that is reversed or fulfilled in a way that the character did not expect but that we, as readers or as audience members, have anticipated because our knowledge of events or individuals is more complete than the character's. |
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| someone states one thing but means the other |
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| character uses words and say one thing but the reader knows the truth (specific) |
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| figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common |
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| first person point of view |
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| narrator is the main character |
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| second person point of view |
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| narrator addresses the reader intimately to you |
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| third person point of view |
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| events related by a voice outside the action |
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name making
ex: buzz, honk |
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contrandict itself
ex: jumbo shrimp |
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| breif story meant to teach a lesson or illustrate a moral truth |
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| object,animal, or idea is given human characteristics |
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| the main character in a work, who may be male or female, heroic or not heroic. See hero/heroine, antihero, and antagonist. Protagonist is the most neutral term. |
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| time and place were action occurs |
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| compared two things with like or as |
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| a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or "stands for" something else. Often the thing or idea represented is more abstract, general, non- or superrational, the symbol more concrete and particular. |
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| ideas the author shares with reader (lesson) |
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| attitude towards his or her subject and theme |
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| description of a person, event, or idea that greatly plays down the importance of the subject |
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| the acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story; the speaker; the "person" telling the story. |
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| beginning, first of anything |
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| capable, given to, relayable |
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| an act of, process, quality or state |
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| without, unable to be acted on |
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| state or condition art or pratice collection |
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