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English 10 Literary Terms

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Use the Glossary of Literary Terms of your literature book, fill in the missing definitions.

Must Know Literary Terms

1.

Antagonist

2. audience

3. round character

a fully-developed character that possesses many traits, mirroring the

psychological complexity of a real person

4. flat character

two-dimensional character with only one or two dominant traits

5. stock character
See Stereotype
6. static character
See Character
7. dynamic character
See Character
8. internal conflict
See Conflict
9. external conflict
See Conflict

10. dialogue

11. verbal irony

See Irony
12. dramatic irony
See Irony p.1259
13. situational irony
See Irony
14. mood

15. protagonist

16. setting

17. symbol

18. theme

19. tone

20. fiction

21. drama

22. poetry

23. novel

24. science fiction

25. short story

26. myth

27. nonfiction

28. autobiography

29. biography

30. memoir
See Autobiography
31. essay

32. allusion

33. exposition
See Plot
34. inciting incident

point which introduces the central conflict

35. rising action

See Plot
36. climax
See Plot
37. falling action
See Plot
38. resolution
See Plot

Medea Literary Terms

39. foreshadowing

40. suspense

41. pathos

ability or power in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and

sadness

42. personification

43. rhetorical question

question that is asked solely to produce an effect or make a statement but

does not expect to receive an answer

44. imagery

Macbeth Literary Terms

45. paradox

46. soliloquy

47. direct characterization

See Characterization, #4
p.1253
48. indirect
characterization
See Characterization
49. foil

To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Terms

50. dialect

51. diction

52. flashback

53. hero

54. hyperbole
(hi-PER-boh-lee)
55. understatement

56. first person narrator

See Point of View
57. third person narrator
See Point of View
58. third person omniscient
narrator
See Point of View
59. third person limited
narrator
See Point of View
60. style