Literary Terms

Literary Terms

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The vantage point from which a writer presents the events an characters of a story...

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The process of creating a character by direct description, by describing what the character says or thinks, or how the character acts, or by what other characters think about the character...

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Speaking of something nonhuman as if it were human...

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A figure of speech involving a stated comparison, using "like or as" between two unlike things...

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One who plays a lesser role in a story...

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The time and place in which the action of the story takes place...

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The event in the story that introduces the central conflict of the story...

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Details that appeal to the senses...

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Examining similar objects, ideas, or situations to discover unlike or dissimilar qualities or characteristics...

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A piece of information presented as being objective; a truth which can be proven...

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The narrator is usually not a character; indicated by pronouns such as he, she it and they...

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A force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way...

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A character who does not change over the course of the story...

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Meaning or quality implied or suggested beyond the printed word; the tone of a word...

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The specific dictionary meaning of the word...

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The overall feeling created by the story or poem...such as sadness, joy, gloom...

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Examining the qualities or characteristics of two or more situations in order to discover similarities...

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Putting things in a continuous or connected series...

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The narrator (all knowing) is able to relate all of the thoughts, experiences, and feelings of the characters...

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The narrator chiefly presents the perspective of only one character...

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Details that appeal to the senses...