OMAM Lit Terms

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Direct Characterization

• when you find out about a character through what they do.
• A character's inner turmoil.
• Description of character by narrator.
• description of the scene

Indirect Characterization

• Information about a character revealed through actions, speech, thoughts, etc.
• character's inner turmoil
• description of the character by the narrator
• challenges faced outside the character's mind (ie nature, society, people)

Conflict

• The struggle between opposing forces
• There is no conflict.
• information about a character revealed through actions
• description of a character by the narrator

External Conflict

• A character’s struggle against outside forces (i.e., man, nature, society)
• The struggle of a character's emotions.
• There is no conflict
• description of a character by the narrator

Internal Conflict

• A character’s struggle against outside forces (i.e., man, nature, society)
• description of a character by the narrator
• The struggle of a character's emotions.
• There is no conflict

Foreshadowing

• The struggle of a character's emotions
• description of a character by the narrator
• A hint of what is coming later in the story.
• looking back at what happen before the story

Diction

• when someone copies exactly what someone else said.
• the struggle of a character's emotions.
• there is no conflict
• an author's choice of words

Symbolism

• an author's choice of words
• person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
• when someone copies exactly what someone else said.
• The use of a musical instrument.

Imagery

• The plot of the story
• The author's use of words to paint a picture in your head of the scene.
• Something that stands for itself, and something else.
• The plot of a story