First set of literary terms
(basic but detailed)
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| an implicit comparison between two unlike things | ||
| an explicit comparison between two unlike things using signal words: like, as, resembles | ||
| main character whose conflicts constitute the five parts of plot | ||
| person, thing or condition against which the protagonist struggles | ||
| a character who provides a contrast to another, more important character, thereby making the more important character's traits stand out more clearly. | ||
| place, society and time | ||
| "I" speaking: reliable or unreliable | ||
| uses pronouns "he," "she" and does not know all | ||
| uses pronouns "he," "she" and does know all | ||
| Any technique an author utilizes in order to create a sense of character. The narrator can directly tell the reader about a character or the reader may indirectly have to draw conclusions from descriptions and the character's actions | ||
| the overarching idea of a story. | ||
| A genre in which the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment: | ||
| ignorance to knowledge ;innocence to experience;false view of world to correct view; idealism to realism;immature responses to mature responses | ||
| series of events in a story | ||
| static, without conflict, this part provides necessary information | ||
| series of increasing conflicts experienced by the protagonist | ||
| moment of greatest emotional intensity when the protagonist reaches her or his greatest conflict. | ||
| protagonist's conflicts decline | ||
| conflicts are resolved and the plot returns to a static state like the exposition, though conditions have changed | ||
| collected for the purpose of determining a pattern and drawing a conclusion | ||
| auditory (sound), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), visual, gustatory (taste) |
