English 10 Lit Term Review

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This list will prepare you for the Lit Term section of the final exam. Please note: the word TONE is not included on the list because the literary definition is not provided.
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  1. allegory
    a short moral story
  2. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
    a literary reference to a familiar person, place or thing.
  3. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
    a person or thing working against the protagonist, or hero, of the work
  4. autobiography
    a book or account of your own life
  5. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
  6. colloquialism
    an expression that seeks to imitate informal speech
  7. conflict
    opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  8. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  9. dialogue
    a conversation between two persons
  10. drama
    a work intended for performance by actors on a stage
  11. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  12. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
    a series of closely related paragraphs written on a single topic
  13. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  14. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
    a character that serves as a contrast or a challenge to another character
  15. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
    giving hints or clues of what will come next
  16. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  17. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
    excessive pride
  18. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  19. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
    the opposite of what is expected
  20. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  21. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  22. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
    an idea, theme, image that recurs in a work of literature
  23. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  24. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  25. novel
    an extended fictional work in prose
  26. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  27. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
  28. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  29. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  30. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  31. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  32. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  33. tragedy
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Created on Tue Jan 14 14:15:59 EST 2014 (updated Tue Jan 14 14:17:10 EST 2014)

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