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Literary Elements The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Literary Elements The Boy in the Striped Pajamas . Ms. Brooks Academic English 9 . Protagonist. The main character of a literary work. Antagonist. A character or force against which another character struggles. Sympathetic Character.

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Literary Elements The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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  1. Literary ElementsThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas Ms. Brooks Academic English 9

  2. Protagonist • The main character of a literary work

  3. Antagonist • A character or force against which another character struggles.

  4. Sympathetic Character • fictional character in a story with whom the writer expects the reader to identify with and care about, if not necessarily admire.

  5. Unsympathetic Character • Fictional character in a story who is unpleasant and difficult to like

  6. Irony • A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature.

  7. Dramatic Irony • a character is ignorant of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters

  8. Situational Irony • the opposite of what is expected occurs.

  9. Verbal Irony • characters say the opposite of what they mean.

  10. Symbolism • An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.

  11. Rising Action • A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's or story's plot leading up to the climax.

  12. Round Character • A character with many personality traits (many details given)

  13. Flat Character • A character with few personality traits (few details given)

  14. Static Character • A character that does not change personality, beliefs, ideas, etc. throughout the work

  15. Dynamic Character • a character that experiences some type of change during the course of the story due to events

  16. Foreshadowing • Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.

  17. Conflict • A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters.

  18. Internal Conflict • Conflict that occurs within a character

  19. External Conflict • Conflict against forces outside of a character

  20. Person v Self Conflict • A character has trouble deciding what action to take. • This type of conflict deals with right and wrong.

  21. Person v Society Conflict • A character has a problem with the law, school, accepted behavior, etc

  22. Person v Nature Conflict • A character struggles with the elements of nature.

  23. Climax/Turning Point • The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work

  24. Falling Action • In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution.

  25. Theme • The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.

  26. Resolution • The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story

  27. Denouement • The resolution of the plot of a literary work.

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