English 11 Literacy Termss
Terms
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any person in a story or any entity in a story that behaves as if it is a person
(ex: The enterprise on Star Trek would be a character) - Character
- multi faceted and complex
- Round
- - one distinguishing characteristic and only exists to advance the plot
- Flat
- remain unchanged throughout the story (mentally or physically)
- Static
- change during the story
- Dynamic
- method by which an author creates a character (SATA- speech, appearance, thought, actions)
- Characterization
- describing characters through the speech and thoughts of other characters
- Indirect
- narrator or author provides information about the character
- Direct
- main character of story (does not necessarily mean the character is good)
- Protagonist
- the person or force who acts against the protagonist
- Antagonist
- character that serves as an opposite for a main character (ex Romeo and Mercutio)
- Foil
- reference to person, place, thing, or idea that the author assumes the reader will be familiar with
- Allusion
- an item that represents itself and a concept larger than itself (2 types: a) general- accepted meaning within a culture and b) contextual- only make sense within the story)
- Symbol
- any difference between appearances and reality
- Irony
- when you say one thing and you mean something else
- Verbal irony
- when you say one thing, you mean another, but you intend to be mean
- Sarcasm
- when it seems that things are going to turn out one way and they turn out another
- Situational irony
- when the audience or reader knows information that the main character does not
- Dramatic irony
- when you have come to believe that you are invincible and the universe needs to give you a reality check
- Cosmic irony
- types of literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, folk tales)
- Genre
- generally identified because it has stanzas
- Poetry
- anything in paragraphs
- Prose
- identified by dialogue tags
- Drama
- one person delivering an extended speech
- Monologue
- a solo, one person alone on stage delivering a speech
- Soliloquy
- a character speaks directly to the audience
- Aside
- conversation between characters
- Dialogue
- speech that is specific to a region or group of people
- Dialect
- word choice
- Diction
- the writer’s attitude towards the reader, the content, or both
- Tone
- the way the author writes
- Style
- dictionary meaning of a word
- Denotation
- cultural meaning
- Connotation
- place
- Locale
- time and place
- Setting
- time, place, and social or cultural values
- Milieu
- the overall impact of a work upon the reader
- Effect
- what about what the story’s about? A moral is a lesson. A topic is an idea or specific content. A theme is the author bringing up issues for a reader to consider (but it is unanswered)
- Theme
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any problem in a story
(internal, external)
(versus: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. self (can be both psychological and physical ex: a drunk), man vs. the supernatural, man vs. technology) - Conflict
- the atmosphere created within a piece of literature
- Mood
- the introduction provided by the author to set the mood or to lend insight on how the story should be interpreted
- Prologue
- the background information required to get the story started and where the major conflict is introduced
- Exposition