Literary Terms (Dunbar)

Question 1

writer's way of revealing character's personality; looks, acts, says, feelings, or thinking

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characterization

Question 2

imaginary story attempts to show real life characters and events

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realistic fiction

Question 3

writer tells life story of another person

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biography

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human qualities given to non-human things

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personification

Question 5

imaginative writing where the laws of nature do not operate

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fantasy

Question 6

outcome of the story; loose ends are tied up

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resolution

Question 7

phrase with different meaning than obtained from each word's usual meaning/definition

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idiom

Question 8

writer tells his or her own life story

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autobiography

Question 9

characteristic speech of particular region or social group

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dialect

Question 10

vantage point from which story is told

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point of view

Question 11

fictional story usually 100-500 pages long

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novel

Question 12

writing that informs or explains; it includes a thesis sentencee

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expository writing

Question 13

a writer hints about something that will happen in the future

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foreshadowing

Question 14

beginning of story which introduces character(s) and setting

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exposition

Question 15

reason for writing; persuade, inform, entertain, express

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author's purpose

Question 16

conversation between characters

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dialogue

Question 17

point of greatest intensity or interest in a literary plot

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climax

Question 18

quality in story or poem that makes reader tense or uncertain about outcome

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suspense

Question 19

using exaggeration or overstatement for special effect

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hyperbole

Question 20

action that follows the climax, leading to resolution

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falling action

Question 21

writing that tells a story with a theme

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narrative writing

Question 22

all the emotions associated with a word; positive or negative

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connotation

Question 23

narrator is all knowing; telling the thoughts, feelings of all the characters

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omniscient

Question 24

category of literature (ex. fiction, biography, fantasy, drama, etc.)

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genre

Question 25

dictionary definition of a word

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denotation

Question 26

general life message in a literary work

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theme

Question 27

repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words

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alliteration

Question 28

sequence of events which happen in a story including a problem and its resolution

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plot

Question 29

struggle or being at odds with another person, society, or nature

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external conflict

Question 30

struggle between opposing forces

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conflict

Question 31

conflict between two elements in a person's mind or heart

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internal conflict

Question 32

time and place of a story

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setting

Question 33

scene which interrupts the action to show earlier event(s)

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flashback

Question 34

narrator tells the story and focuses on one character; uses "he," "she," and "they"

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third person

Question 35

reference to well-known person, place, event, or art work

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allusion

Question 36

character or thing representing or standing for something beyond itself;

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symbolism

Question 37

comparison between two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"

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metaphor

Question 38

narrative/story of past events and characters, partly historical but mostly imaginative

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historical fiction

Question 39

second stage of plot; builds suspense and interest

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rising action

Question 40

comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

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simile

Question 41

attitude taken towards subject, character, and readers

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tone

Question 42

story handed down by generations, usually based on some fact

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legend

Literary Terms (Dunbar)

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Literary Terms (Dunbar)

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