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4. C. Marshall

5. *ALLEGORY*  A figurative and literal meaning.

6. *ALLITERATION*  A pattern of sounds of the same consonant.

7. *ALLUSION*  Reference to a historical person, place, thing, or literary work.

8. *ANTAGONIST*  Character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character

9. ARCHETYPE  A character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life

10. CHARACTERS  a person who is responsible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature

11. CLIMAX  The moment which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved

12. CONNOTATION  An association that comes along with a particular word. Connotations relate not to a word's actual meaning, but to the ideas or qualities that are implied by that word

13. DENOTATION  the exact meaning of a word *Cat: a small domestic carnivore*

14. DIALOGUE  The conversation between characters.

15. *EXPOSITION*  Authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail. Susan is angry.

16. FALLING ACTION  Series of events following the climax that lead to the resolution

17. FLASHBACK  a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration

18. *FORESHADOWING*  Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative

19. GENRE  a type of literature

20. *IDIOM*  Figure of speech “She was green with envy.” Her skin really wasn’t green. It’s just a phrase!

21. *IMAGERY*  The "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature Uses the 5 sense!

22. *IRONY*  A literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem

23. METAPHOR  Compares two things without using like or as

24. NARRATIVE  a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing

25. PLOT  The structure and relationship of actions and events

26. POINT OF VIEW  A way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader. It is the “vantage point” from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader.

27. *PROTAGONIST*  A protagonist is considered to be the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem

28. RESOLUTION  the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, usually occurs near the final stages of the plot

29. RISING ACTION  series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

30. SETTING  the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs

31. SHORT STORY  a prose narrative that is brief. The short story also has many of the same characteristics of a novel including characters, setting and plot

32. SIMILE  Comparison using “like” or “as”

33. SYMBOL  a word or object that stands for another word or object

34. THEME  a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work

35. REFERENCE GUIDE  All American: Glossary of Literary Terms  Dr. Wheeler’s Literary Definition