Lit Terms

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Introduction (Exposition)

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Sets the action in motion

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Inciting Moment

Back 2

something leading to an action

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Rising Action

Back 3

Events leading to climax

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Climax

Back 4

Point of a story that has the greatest intensity

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Falling Action

Back 5

events that occurs after the climax leading to the resolution

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Resolution (Denouement)

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Its when the problem in the story is resolved

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Internal Conflict

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Man vs self

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Man vs. Self

Back 8

Man vs self

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External Conflict

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Conflict with something external

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Man vs. Nature

Back 10

Man vs something involved in nature

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Man vs. Man

Back 11

man vs another man

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Man vs. Society

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man is arguing against group

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Man vs. Technology

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Man vs Griever

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Direct Characterization

Back 14

Author tells what character is like

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Indirect Characterization

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Reader must infer what character is like from inference

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Dynamic Character

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Change during the course of the book

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Flat Character

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Character we don’t know

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Round Character

Back 18

Characters you know well

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Static Character

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Character that stays the same throughout the book

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First person

Back 20

You get the point of view from the narrator that is talking as the character

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Third person

Back 21

omniscient You know the view from all side in the story

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Protagonist

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hero in a story

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Antagonist

Back 23

character or force in conflict with the hero

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Plot Events

Back 24

that make up a story

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Setting

Back 25

time, date, and place of a story

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Dialogue

Back 26

Conversations between characters

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Dialect

Back 27

the use of an accent from a particular area or region

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Mood

Back 28

atmosphere or overfall feeling in a story

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Suspense

Back 29

a feeling of tension or anxiety in any story

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Fiction

Back 30

type of a story that could happen but did not happen

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Science Fiction

Back 31

type of story that is based on scientific principles; it might happen in the future

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Colloquialism

Back 32

everyday language or slang used in literature

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Symbol

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represents something in a figurative way

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Symbolism

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Use of symbols

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Personification

Back 35

giving inanimate objects human characteristics

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Onomatopoeia

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a word that imitates a sound

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Simile

Back 37

a comparison using like or as

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Oxymoron

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two opposing terms used for description

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Metaphor

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a comparison without like or as

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Irony

Back 40

an unexpected twist in a story

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Narrator

Back 41

voice or character telling a story

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Local Color

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attitudes, dialect, and setting of a particular area or region

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Satire

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writing that makes fun of something in order to bring about social change

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Imagery

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a picture and author makes with descriptive words

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Genre

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a type of literary work Ex. short story, novel, poetry

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Analogy

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is just a comparison

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Foreshadowing

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hints an author gives of events to come

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Flashback

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when an author goes back to events that have happened in the past

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Figurative Language

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Its like imagery

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Alliteration

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repetition of the initial consonant sound

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Connotation

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associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to its literal meaning

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Denotation

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the precise literal meaning of a word

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Allusion

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when an author refers to another piece of literature he or she assumes the reader will recognize

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Moral

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the lesson abouth life that an author conveys