Literature Terms

use of the five senses to create detail

• hyperbole

• symbolism

• dynamic character

• imagery

all writing that is not drama or poetry

• narrative

• prose

• song

• short story

a brief fictional narrative written in prose

• plot

• memoir

• short story

• stanza

the difference between appearance and reality or expectation and reality

• external conflict

• internal conflict

• irony

• foreshadowing

events which occur after the climax; leads to the resolution

• rising action

• conflict

• drama

• falling action

revealing a character's personality through words, thoughts, and actions of a character

• indirect characterization

• direct characterization

• sensory details

• rising action

the vantage point from which the story is told

• first person

• Point of View

• 3rd person omniscient

• narrator

the repetition of rhymes within a single line of poetry

• rhyme scheme

• internal rhyme

• drop that beat

• couplet

background information of the story

• setting

• plot

• summary

• exposition

a stanza containing four lines; may have a rhyme scheme of abcb

• tres locomotive

• quatrain

• couplet

• stanza