Literary Terms (27) Nordonia
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- conflict
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struggles between opposing forces
man vs. man
man vs. Nature
man vs. society
man vs. himself - antagonist
- person or force of conflict with the main character
- allusion
- reference to something else which the writer expects his audience to recognize
- characters
- people in the story
- suspence
- the quality that makes the reader tense or uncertian avout what will come next
- connotation
- emotins or associations a word brings to mind
- theme
- underlying meaning of the story
- climax
- most exciting part; turning point in the story; most intense
- denotion
-
dictionary defintion of a word
- dialect
-
speech patterns representative of a certian region or group
- hyperbole
- etreme exaggeration
- dialogue
-
coversation between characters-in quotes
- falling action
- sequence of events after climax
- foreshadowing
- use of hints or clues to suggest action that is to come
- flashback
- an interruption in the story to tell about something that happened earlier in time
- complicating incident
- event which brings the action of the story
- introduction
- beginning of the story; meet characters, settings is presented
- plot
- sequence of events in a story
- irony
- contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
- mood
- feelings the author creates
- protagonist
- the main character in the story
- satire
-
use of humor to ridicule something
- resolution
- endingof the story; loose ends tied up; problems solved
- point of view
- perspective from which the story is told
- rising action
- sequence of events leading to climax; conflict becomes more intense
- setting
- location and time in a story
- tone
- the attitude the writer takes towards his/her subject