American Lit Milestone Literary Terms Review

Plays that end in disaster

What does "in medias res" mean?

A text including artistic qualities.

An author's attitude towards their subject

The process of looking closely at small parts of a text to determine their deeper meaning.

Perspective from which a story is told

The highest point of tension in a storyline, often depicted by a confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist.

When the audience knows something the characters do not

Sayings and expressions that cannot be translated literally

A novel written in the form of letters or diaries

Language intended to convey the opposite of it's literal meaning

A group of texts characterized by shared stylistic traits.

The emotional associations of a word.

Rhyme in which words have similar but not identical sounds

When the author states outright what a character is like

To draw a conclusion based on evidence from a text. Arrived at without definitive explicit evidence

Resolution of a story

When events in a narrative are arranged in the order in which they happened

"Molten golden notes" is an example of

A type of literary conflict where a psychological struggle that takes place within a character.

A character who changes throughout the course of a story

Which of the following is NOT true of sonnets?

A type of literary conflict between two opposing forces.

Pattern of rhyming words in a poem

Poetry that follows no specific guidelines about rhyme, meter, or length

An author's choice of words

All of the ways in which an author shows their audience who a character is.

What happens near the end of a story after the climax but before the resolution.

An extended metaphor that is created throughout a story

Genre of writing that ridicules people, practices, or institutions to expose their failings

A short poem expressing the thoughts or feelings of a single speaker

A narrative organization involvingstory within a story

Rhyme occuring at the ends of lines

A genre of texts including plays, radio plays, and movies consisting of one or more acts

When an author mentions a specific portion of a text to support analysis; may be direct quotation or paraphrase

Which of these is an internal conflict?

A text based focused on facts, truth, and real events.

Poem that tells a story

Related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the climax.

"Chitter chatter" is an example of

Describes the struggle in a narrative between two opposing forces.

Literary work focused on the communication of feelings and ideas. Often, but not always, written in verse form.

A character that is not complex and has only one defining characteristic

A character's unspoken thoughts

The central message of a text about the world an author wishes to convey.

The dictionary definition of a word

A type of texts that includes gneres such as adventure stories, mysteries, myth, allegories, and graphic novels

Rules and accepted practices involving a play

Narrative poem intended to be sung

The part of the plot where an author reveals background information about the world of the story.

A story structure where a narrative contains two or more separate stories that never converge.

The historical period or geographical region associated with a text.

When the narrator is not a character; focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

Conversation between characters in a narrative

Overall feeling or emotion the author establishes

Language that appeals to the senses

When the narrator is not a character in the story; sees into all the characters' minds