Literary+Terms

This space is designed to store your literary terms. If you lose your notebook or miss a word they will be here to access online. Please number each entry, so that we can keep track of how many literary terms we have studied.

1) **__Plot-__** The series of events in a work of fiction.

2) **__Setting-__** The time, place, and mode of a work of fiction.

3) __**Inciting Incident-**__ The event that kick starts the action in a work of literature.

4) __**Conflict-**__ A struggle between two opposing forces. Examples: Person vs. Person Person vs. Nature Person vs. Society Person vs. Self

5) __**Rising Action-**__ The series of events that leads to the climax.

6) __**Symbol-**__ Something concrete that represents something abstract.

7) __**Turning Point-**__ The moment at which the action of a story changes direction quickly.

8) __**Climax-**__ The highpoint of action in a story.

9) __**Falling Action-**__ The moments after the climax in which the tension is released.

10) __**Characterization-**__ The means by which an author creates memorable characters. Examples: -Appearance -Speech -Actions -Reactions/Reputation

11) __**Round Character-**__ A character who displays a wide and complex range of human emotions.

12) __**Flat** **Character-**__ A character who does not display a wide complex range of human emotions.

13) **__Dynamic Character-__** A character who undergoes a significant change

14)**__Static Character-__** A character who fails or refuses to change

15) **__Stock Character-__** Reoccurring character types

16) **__Protagonist-__** The control character in a work of literature. The character who the reader roots for.

17) **__Antagonist-__** The character who the reader roots against.

18) __**Theme-**__ A universal message about life.

19) __**Irony-**__ A state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to end in mockery of the expected result.

20) __**Figurative Language-**__ Poetic language that isn't meant to be taken only at free value.

21) __**Tragedy**__- A drama in which a character(s) of noble background is "made low" because a fatal flaw.

22) **__Comedy-__** A humorous drawn with a happy ending focuses on positive.

23) **__Personification-__** ascribing human characteristics to non-human things. -Description / Explanation / Imagery

24) __**Foreshadowing-**__ hints or clues as to what will happen later on in a literary work.

25) __**Dramatic Irony-**__ When the Audience knows key information that the cast of characters thus heightening the tension.