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Literary Terms. The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. . Climax--Definition. CLIMACTIC STRUCTURE.
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The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. Climax--Definition
A symbol is a word, place, character or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. SYMBOLISM--DEFINITION
EXAMPLE: The Rings of Power • Pure, limitless power • The Ring: Unimaginable power, but also an unimaginable burden SYMBOLISM--EXAMPLE
A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the “mental pictures” that readers experience with a passage of literature. IMAGERY--DEFINITION
“He…saw leaning over him a huge willow-tree, old and hoary. Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingerred hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved.” (pg. 131). IMAGERY--EXAMPLE
“On the top they found, as Strider had said, a wide ring of ancient stonework, now crumbling or covered with age-long grass. But in the centre a cairn of broken stones had been piled. They were blackened as if with fire. About them the turf was burned to the roots and all within the ring the grass was scorched and shriveled, as if flames had swept the hill-top…” (211) Ch. 11 “A Knife in the Dark”
“As Strider was speaking they watched his strange eager face, dimly lit in the red glow of the wood-fire. His eyes shone and his voice was rich and deep. Above him was a black starry sky. Suddenly a pale light appeared over the crown of Weathertop behind him. The waxing moon was climbing slowly above the hill that overshadowed them…” (219) Ch. 11 “A Knife in the Dark”
“The face of Elrond was ageless, neither old nor young, though in it was written the memory of many things both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was a circlet of silver’ his eyes were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the light of stars.” (254) Book 2—ch. 1 “Many Meetings”
“Almost it seemed that the [elven words] took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world.” (261) Book 2—ch. 1 “Many Meetings”
