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=Mr. Masson's English 9 Literary Terms=

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1. Symbol -- something concrete that represents something abstract. Ex. The ibis in The Scarlet Ibis represents Doodle's struggle and death.

2. Setting -- time, place, and mood

3. Conflict - a struggle between two opposing forces -- person vs. person -- person vs. society -- person vs. nature -- person vs. self

4. central conflict - the most important or essential conflict in a work of literature

5. rising action - the events that lead to a story's climax

6. climax - the high point of action in a work of literature

7. resolution - after the climax, the time in which the central problem is resolved

8. plot - the events that take place in a work of literature

9. character -- A person or animal who figures into the action of a short story.

10. round character -- A character who displays a fill range of human emotions.

11. flat character -- A character who fails to displays a limited emotional range of human emotions.

12. Dynamic character -- A character who undergoes a significant personal change in a work of literature.

13. Static character -- A character who is unwilling or unable to undergo change or growth.

14. Flashback- A pause in the action of a story, to go back in time to deliver information important to the story as a whole.

15. Protagonist- The character that holds the sympathy of the reader. Not necessarily a hero.

16. Antagonist- The bad guy

17. Microcosm- A small, enclosed system that represents a larger system.

18. Allusion- A reference to a well known __work of art__, __work of literature__, __period of time__, or __famous person__.

19. Stocked Character- A Character that reoccurs in different literature; Stereotypical Character. Example:Evil Stepmother

20. Theme- A universal message about life.

21. Image- Word pictures, words appealing to the five senses.

22. Narrator- The voice or person who relates the story in a novel or short story.

23. First Person Narrator- An active charater telling the story or short story.

24. microcosm - a small, enclosed system that represents a bigger, more complicated sysem

25. allusion - a reference to famous works of art, literature, period of history, or famous person

26. critical literacy - the ability to read the word and the world

27. couplet - two consecutive lines of rhymed poetry

28. oxymoron - two seemingly opposite words that are used together for a specific descriptive purpose. Ex. cold fire, jumbo shrimp.

29. Simile - A comparison of two seemingly dissimilar objects using like or as. Ex. My bounty is as boundless as the sea.

30. figurative language - language that suggests something more than its literal meaning suggests

31. metaphor - a direct comparison of two seemingly disimilar things

32. simile - a comparison of two seemingly dissimilar objects using like or as

33. hyperbole - dramatic overstatement Ex. Strong as a bull

34. personification - attributing human qualities to inanimate objects for descriptive purpose Ex. The wind whispered throught the trees.

35. Alliteration - The repetition of a Constant Sound at the beginning of Consecutive Words, 36. Tradegy- A generally serious work of drama in which the protagonist is doomed because of a flow in his/her character 37. Quatrain- A group of four lines of rhymed poetry