American Lit- Vocab List #1

an author's main reason for writing (to inform, to persuade, to entertain..)

• author's purpose

• context

• broad generalization

• point of view

a short musical narrative song or poem that usually recounts a single exciting or dramatic episode

• metaphor

• ballad

• hubris

• conflict

a statement mostly based on limited knowledge about a large group of things, places, or people (ex: All women like to shop)

• context

• hubris

• author's purpose

• broad generalization

the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story

• conflict

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• in medias res

a character struggles with his or her own opposing desire, beliefs, or needs

• conflict

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• context

a character struggles against an outside force

• conflict

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• hubris

set of facts or circumstances surrounding an event or a situation in a piece of literature

• author's purpose

• ballad

• broad generalization

• context

excessive pride or vaulting ambition

• hubris

• broad generalization

• conflict

• theme

in the middle of things

• in medias res

• irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

a difference between appearances and reality

• context

• broad generalization

• irony

• dramatic irony