Trimester 1 Literary Terms Matching

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• narrator is a character in the story.

• narrator

• The person telling the story

• 1st person point of view

• Narrator outside story for 1 character.

• Limited 3rd person point of view

• Narrator outside for many characters

• Omniscient 3rd Person point of view

• vantage point from which a piece is told

• point of view

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• The repeating of a word or phrase

• dialect

• Language that emphasizes the senses

• setting

• the central message of the story

• theme

• Variation of language by a certain group

• imagery

• Time and place of the story

• repetition

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• Giving human traits to non-human things

• simile

• A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'

• idiom

• Reference to a real person, place music

• personification

• A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• metaphor

• A meaning is different than actual mean

• allusion

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• story is invented by the writer

• realistic fiction

• impact of science on different societies

• fiction

• story can be read in a single session.

• short story

• literary or artistic category

• genre

• made up stories set in the real world.

• science fiction

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• describing a character using traits

• characterization

• overall feeling or atmosphere of a story

• alliteration

• the repetition of consonant sounds

• stereotype

• the expression of something contrary to what is expected

• mood

• Flat character with a repeated type

• irony

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• The authors choice of words

• protagonist

• main character, hero

• antagonist

• a character with varied or contradictory

• round character

• a character with one character trait.

• Diction

• opposing force, villain

• flat character

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• events after the climax leading to closure

• falling action

• conclusion of the story

• exposition

• introduction of the characters and setting

• rising action

• turning point of the action

• resolution

• events leading to the climax

• climax

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• a struggle between outside forces

• external conflict

• a struggle within the mind (self)

• conflict

• the main struggle of the story

• internal conflict

• the structure of a piece of fiction.

• plot

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• where the story takes place

• implied setting

• a memory

• character

• talk

• flashback

• clues to events that will happen.

• foreshadowing

• a person or creature in a literary work.

• voice

What is the definition of plot?