 Please have out your Literature Terms from yesterday.

Agenda  Vocabulary Mini-poster due Friday (word, definition, part of speech, synonym/antonym, sentence, picture)  Vocabulary question sheet due next Wednesday.  Book Orders due next Thursday. Remember my online code is DX4T8.

Directions:  Have your literary terms paper ready to review.  If you need to add information or change your definition, feel free to do so while the slides are up.  Add examples if it helps you remember definitions.

Drama  A written story meant to be acted for an audience. It may also be enjoyed in written form.

Essay  A short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject.

Genre  A class or category of literary work.

Fable  A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to get along in life.

Fantasy  A genre of literature that typically includes magic and supernatural phenomena as a primary theme. Often, the setting is in an imaginary world.

Fiction  A prose account that is made up rather than true.

Folk Tales  A story with no known author that originally was passed on from on generation to another by word of mouth.

Myth  A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings.

Non-Fiction  Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.

Novel  A fictional story that is usually more than one hundred book pages long.

Poetry  A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination.

Prose  The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.

Science Fiction  This is a form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge in its plot, setting, theme, etc.

Short Story  A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty book pages long.

Tall Tale  An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets “taller and taller,” more and more far- fetched, the more it is told and retold.

Trickster Tale  Tricksters play an important role in folktales and are characters who are mischievous, and typically make up for physical weakness with cunning humor and trickery.

Character  A person or animal who takes part in the action of a story, play, or other literary work.

Static Character  A character who does not change much in the course of a work.

Dynamic Character  A character who changes as a result of the story’s events.

Protagonist (Pro=in favor of)  The protagonist is the leading character, hero, or heroine of a story.

Antagonist (anti= against/opposite of)  An antagonist is an adversary (enemy) of the hero or protagonist.

Point of View  The vantage point from which a story is told.

1 st person  One of the characters is telling the story from their point of view. As a reader, we only know what this character observes and knows.

3 rd person  The narrator tells the story as though removed from all the action and is not involved directly with the characters. The narrator uses words such as “they,” “he,” “she,” etc.

Omniscient  The narrator is “all knowing,” or knows everything about all of the characters and their problems.

Limited (3 rd person)  The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. The reader observes the action through the eyes and feelings of only one character.

Foreshadowing  The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.

Theme/Moral  The truth about life revealed in a work of literature.

Conflict  A struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.

External Conflict  A character struggles against one outside force such as society, another character, nature, technology, etc.

Internal conflict  This conflict takes place within the character’s mind.

Resolution  The resolution is how the conflict is solved. Not all conflicts end happily.

Plot  The series of related events that makes up a story.

Plot

Exposition  The introduction of the story in which the reader learns about the characters, setting, and conflict of a story.

Rising Action  Complications begin to arise as the characters take steps to resolve the conflict. The rising action builds excitement and suspense in a story.

Climax  The most emotional or suspenseful moment in the story, when the outcome is decided one way or another.

Falling action  Events begin to unwind and settle after the climax of the story.

Denouement (resolution)  The characters’ problems are solved and the story ends. This may not always be a happy ending.

Symbol  A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well.

Agenda  Read AR book  Vocabulary mini-poster due tomorrow.  Vocabulary question sheet due Wednesday.  Lit Terms due tomorrow.