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Literary Terms

Literary Terms. Fiction. A prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events. The term is usually for novels and short stories, but it also applies to dramas and narrative poetry. http://www.wb18.com/funstuff/downloads/supernatural-800-x-600.jpg.

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms

  2. Fiction • A prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events. The term is usually for novels and short stories, but it also applies to dramas and narrative poetry. http://www.wb18.com/funstuff/downloads/supernatural-800-x-600.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.planethelium.com/lotr/aragon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.planethelium.com/rings.html&h=600&w=800&sz=63&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=xBQThcEOyu7fcM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daragon%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

  3. Short Story • A brief work of fiction. http://www.librarybooks.com/cat_images/scarlet_ibis.gif http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/muze/books/1413000428.jpg http://sepnet.com/rcramer/pictures/mostdang.jpg

  4. Character • A person or an animal who takes part in the action of a literary work. Characters are sometimes classified as round or flat, dynamic or static. http://web.mit.edu/kayla/Public/Backgrounds/LOTR%20Frodo.JPG http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.numberonestars.com/movies/images2/cars.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2006/cars.htm&h=829&w=560&sz=96&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=Y6EU5SvonuLBTM:&tbnh=144&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCars%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

  5. Round Character • This character shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/malcolm/gallery/images/340/malcolm4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/malcolm/gallery/season3/malcolm4.shtml&h=255&w=340&sz=10&hl=en&start=16&tbnid=XhkiSujuGSyOkM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmalcom%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmiddle%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

  6. Flat Character http://www.darrenfrodsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/batman.jpg http://members.tripod.com/~film_circle/rushhour.jpg • Has only one or two traits.

  7. Dynamic Character • This character develops and grows during the course of the story. http://www.eurpac.com/hepicts/tsdvd/princess%20diaries%20dvd.jpg

  8. Static Character • This character does not change much in the story. http://static.flickr.com/39/82639167_4bdae091fd_m.jpg

  9. Protagonist • The main character in a literary work. http://www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/movies/napolean_dynamite/napoleandynamite3.jpg

  10. Antagonist • A character or force in conflict with a main character or the protagonist. http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/wallpaper/superman/smallville/lex-luthor.jpg

  11. Characterization • The act of creating and developing a character. http://www.lotrfanshop.com/shopimages/movies/movies-et)vd-2386s.gifl.gif

  12. Direct Characterization • The author directly states a character’s traits. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/Images/MoviePics/e/emperorsnewgroove.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movies.php%3Fid%3D2677&h=297&w=200&sz=16&hl=en&start=18&tbnid=vS9555-OU70L-M:&tbnh=116&tbnw=78&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddavid%2Bspade%2Bemperor%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

  13. Indirect Characterization • An author tells what a character looks like, does, and says, as well as how other characters react to him or her. It is up to the reader to draw conclusions about the character based on this indirect information. http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/liveaction/pirates/downloads/desktops/POC_desktop2_small.jpg

  14. Conflict • A struggle between opposing forces, usually it will form the basis of stories, novels, and plays. http://www.warnerbros.co.uk/movies/troy/img/troy_main.jpg

  15. External Conflict • The main character struggles with an outside force. Usually the outside force consists of: • man vs. man • man vs. nature • man vs. society • man vs. supernatural (God or gods)

  16. Man vs. Man http://www.talithamackenzie.com/pics/biog/troy.jpg

  17. Man vs. Nature http://www.canadian-titanic-society.com/book_cover.jpg

  18. Man vs. Supernatural http://www.kidsclick.com/images/hercules_action.jpg

  19. Man vs. Society http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/jswafford/rememberthetitans.gif

  20. Internal Conflict • Involves a character in conflict with himself or herself. http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2002/0201/Film%20-%20A%20Beautiful%20Mind/beautiful%20mind.jpg

  21. Plot • The sequence of events in a literary work. In most novels, dramas, short stories, and narrative poems, the plot involves both characters and a central conflict. It usually begins with a: • exposition, followed by a inciting incident, rising action (development), climax, falling action, and ending with a resolution (denouement). http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/toolkits/images/TMP_plotdiagram_large.jpg

  22. Exposition Exposition • Is a writing or speech that explains a process or presents information. In the plot of a story or drama, the exposition is the part of the work that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation.

  23. Rising Action Rising Action • All the events leading up to the climax.

  24. Climax Climax • The conflict reaches a high point of interest or suspense.

  25. Falling Action Falling Action • Follows the climax and leads to a resolution.

  26. Resolution Resolution • The end of the central conflict.

  27. Narrator • The person that is telling the story. http://www.unca.edu/housing/images/services/video-game-lending-library/videos/covers/forest-gump.jpg

  28. Point of View • The point from which the story is told. Usually the narrator, character or outside observer who tells the story. http://cctvimedia.clearchannel.com/ktvf/car%20accident.jpg

  29. First Person Point of View • When a character in the story tells the story. • Example: When “I” or “Me” is used in a story or movie to tell the story. http://www.worth1000.com/entries/42000/42129AFhe_w.jpg

  30. Second Person Point of View When “you” is used to narrate the story. Can be intimate or accusatory. Used in choose your own adventure books and recipes. http://www.pandora.ca/pictures9/676276.jpg

  31. Third Person Limited Point of View • The narration does not use “I” or “me”. Only he/she/it. • The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of just one character. http://www.3d-screensaver-downloads.com/images/harry-potter-screensaver/big3.jpg

  32. Third Person Omniscient Point of View • The all knowing narrator can tell us about the past, present and future of all the characters (godlike). http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/God.creating.stars.jpeg

  33. Setting • The time and place of a literary work. • Example: The setting for “The Cask of Amontillado” is “Early evening in an Italian city during a carnival immediately preceding Lent.”   http://cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/PoeTales.jpg

  34. Mood • Also known as atmosphere, is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Usually it is created by the suggestive descriptive details. It can sometimes be described by a single word, such as lighthearted, frightening or despairing. http://www.geekroar.com/film/archives/underworld.jpg

  35. Theme • A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. It is a generalization about people or about life that is communicated through the literary work. Readers thinks about what the work seems to say about the nature of people or about life. http://www.militarymuseum.org/Resources/saving%20private%20ryan%20poster.jpg http://victoryatseaonline.com/war/otherwars/images/patriot.gif

  36. Tone • The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject. It can often be described as a single adjective, such as formal or informal, serious or playful, bitter or ironic. http://pressunic.com/video/images/shangai_kid2.jpg

  37. Irony • The general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention. • Implies a twist. http://kilby.sac.on.ca/towerslibrary/pages/users/DVD%20-%20Romeo%20&%20Juliet%20(Hollywood).jpg

  38. Verbal Irony • Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/star_wars__episode_iii___revenge_of_the_sith/_group_photos/hayden_christensen5.jpg

  39. Dramatic Irony • There is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true. http://www.sunnews.com/images/2003/0821/jasonRGB.jpg

  40. Situational Irony • An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience. http://www.d8a.co.uk/vcd/Planet-of-the-apes.jpg

  41. Foreshadowing • The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. Use of this technique helps to create suspense, keeping readers wondering and speculating about what will happen next. http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/images/foreshadowing.jpg

  42. Suspense • A feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work. http://www.baggas.com/blog/images/warworlds.jpg

  43. Flashback • A literary or dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative. http://www.foxmovies.com.au/content/fox_films/277/images/SANDLOT%20THE_FLR.jpg

  44. Satire • A technique that ridicules people and their institutions in an effort to expose their weaknesses and evils. http://fapac.wcu.edu/Images/Leno.jpg

  45. Connotation • A word that contains a set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning. Based on the word, it can be personal and/or based on individual experiences. Example: “My bad” or “Sorry” “House” or “Home”

  46. Denotation • A word that is its dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have. • Example: “Gorgeous” means beautiful instead of “Da Bomb”

  47. Dialect • The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. Pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence structure are affected by dialect. • Example: People in Texas speak differently than people from New York or New Jersey.

  48. Diction • A word choice. The appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language. Both the denotation, or literal meaning, and the connotation, or associations, of words contribute to the overall effect. • Example: “It was easy to use that laptop” or “It was effortless using that laptop”

  49. Imagery • The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images, are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement. http://www.thailandtradenet.com/photos/catalog/bedroom/chinese-bed.jpg http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20050601/a798_129.SMELL.JPG

  50. Metaphor • A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. • Example: • “Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with” http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/s/seu-smo/simon_birch.jpg

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