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Literary Terms

Terms

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Conflict
general clash between character and something else
Characterization
charcters action,words,physical description,what other character say about the character
Connotation
feeling of a word
Stock Character
a stereotypical character
Third Person Omniscient
narrator knows everything about all the characters
Tone
the attitude a writer takes towards the subject he/she is writing
Third Person Objective
narrator can only see and hear what is happening
Irony
discrepancy between what is said and what is meant, and between that is expected and what actually happens
Third Person Limited Omniscient
narrator knows everything about one character
Point of view
the general frame of reference from which narrator tells story
Denouement
The Conclusion or resolution
Denotation
dictionary definition of the word
Motif
repetition of a theme,word, phrase or word pattern
Foil
character or thing that emphasizes another character's attributes and/or personality by contrasts

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