Literary Terms 1

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The method of narration/vantage point from which a story is told. (first person, third person, limited, omniscient)

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Point of View

Front

What generally provides the time and place of a specific scene or chapter, the entire story, a play or a narrative poem? Options: Setting, Conflict, Motif, Dialect

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Setting

Front

Refers to a person or an animal in a story, play or other literary work.

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Character

Front

The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals.

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Theme

Front

An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happen at an earlier time.

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Flashback

Front

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be the other thing.

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Metaphor

Front

Repetition of consonant sounds generally at the beginning of words, or, within neighboring words in a sentence.

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Alliteration

Front

A conversation between two or more characters.

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Dialogue

Front

Provides a recurrent feeling, image, message or criterion throughout a piece of literature.

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Motif

Front

When a word or phrase of a line is repeated within the text; makes the reader consciously aware of a point being made by the author or character.

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Repetition