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Literary Terms

Literary Terms. Character Terms. Antagonist - Usually the principal character in opposition to the protagonist. Can also be a force of nature/society. Protagonist - The central character or hero in a narrative or drama-usually the one with whom the audience tends to identify with.

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms

  2. Character Terms • Antagonist - Usually the principal character in opposition to the protagonist. Can also be a force of nature/society. • Protagonist - The central character or hero in a narrative or drama-usually the one with whom the audience tends to identify with. • Flat Character - Characters who are described simply or underdeveloped.

  3. Character Terms Continued • Round Character - A character whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully described by the author. • Dynamic Character - A character who undergoes major changes as the plot unfolds. • Static Character - A character who remains the same as the plot unfolds.

  4. Figurative Language • Foreshadowing - A writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later in the plot. • Flashback - A conversation, event, or episode that happened before the beginning of the story. • Symbolism - when a person, place, activity, or object stands for something else. • Simile - a comparison between two things using “like” or “as”.

  5. Figurative Language Continued • Metaphor - a comparison of two unlike things. • Hyperbole -A figure of speech in which truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect. • Personification -Figure of speech where human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. • Irony – A contradiction between what is said and what is meant or a difference between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

  6. Plot Terms • Setting - The particular time and place in which events occur. • Exposition - Introductory material that gives the background of the story (setting, characters, tone). • Rising Action - Introduces complications, builds suspense, is when the plot “thickens”. • Climax - Turning point of the story, the moment suspense reaches its peak, it results in a change for main character.

  7. Plot Terms Continued • Falling Action - occurs after the climax, resolves conflict, and ties up loose ends • Resolution - solution/outcome • Conflict--Problems or struggles between opposing forces • Internal- struggle that occurs within a character • External- character again an outside force such as nature, another person, or a physical object

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