Literary Terms Fall Semester. Anecdote A short written or oral account of an event in a real person’s life.

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Literary Terms Fall Semester

Anecdote A short written or oral account of an event in a real person’s life

Antagonist A person or force that opposes the protagonist, or central character, in a story or drama

Climax The turning point or emotional high point of a story or drama; the point of highest contention

Epic A long narrative poem that recounts(tells) in formal language the exploits of a larger than life hero

Exemplum A brief story used as an example to illustrate a moral point

Extended Metaphor A metaphor that compares two unlike things in various ways throughout an entire paragraph, stanza, or selection

Frame Story A plot structure that includes the telling of a story within a story

Genre A category or type of literature Examples: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama

Irony A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality Types: Verbal, Dramatic and Situational

Legend A tale that is based on history and handed down from one generation to the next

Kenning A descriptive figure of speech that takes the place of a common noun Example: in Beowulf, a battle is called a “storm of words”

Narrative Writing that tells a story

Nonfiction Literature that deals with real people, events, and experiences

Point of View The relationship of the narrator to the story 1 st person: narrator is telling...hint: “I” is used 3 rd person limited: narrator tells the thoughts of one character 3 rd person omniscient: narrator knows the feelings of all Little known---2 nd person POV: writing that gives directions…hint: “you” is used

Protagonist The central character in a story, drama, or dramatic poem whom most of the action revolves Does the protagonist have to be “good”?

Romance A term used to describe long narrative works about the exploits and love affairs of chivalric heroes

Satire Literature that exposes to ridicule the vices or follies of people through the devices of exaggeration, understatement and irony

Setting The time and place in which the events of a literary work occur

Style The expressive qualities that distinguish an author’s work, including word choice (diction), sentence structure (syntax), and figures of speech

Theme The main idea of a work expressed as a general statement about life

Tone A refection of the writer's attitude toward the subject that is conveyed through diction, syntax, punctuation and figures of speech

Vernacular Ordinary spoken language of people of a particular region Example: “Y’all”—southern “loo”—used in England for bathroom