FFA Literary Terms

Question 1

A conclusion or opinion that draws on known facts, evidence or intuition to fill in information

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Inference

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the restating of information in one's own words rather than the words of the original source

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Paraphrase

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A conflict that occurs within a character

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Internal Conflict

Question 4

The narrator is a character in the story.

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First Person Narrator

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A reference to a person, place or event, or to another literary work or passage.

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Allusion

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A genre that explores unexpected possibilities using known scientific principles and creativity

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Science Fiction

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When elements of a plot are repeated several times in the course of a story.

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Parallel Episodes

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A direct comparison of two things that are dissimilar, using the words like or as

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Simile

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A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.

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Genre

Question 10

A character struggles against an outside force, ex: nature, an obstacle, or another character.

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External Conflict

Question 11

A literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions.

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Irony

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A character who undergoes changes as the plot unfolds.

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Dynamic Character

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A figure of speech that gives life or human characteristics to non-human objects or ideas.

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Personification

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An secondary plot in a story which contains its own conflict separate from the main conflict.

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Subplot

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Expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject.

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Tone

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A broad statement that based on a belief about only part of the information

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Generalization

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One who tells a story or interprets events in a way that makes readers doubt what he is saying.

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Unreliable Narrator

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A character who remains the same throughout the story.

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Static Character

Question 19

A specific piece of information that is offered to support a claim.

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Evidence

Question 20

A statement which must be supported with evidence.

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Claim

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