English Terminology In Literature
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| Q.1) |
a method of representation in which a person. abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else
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| Q.2) | in a work of literature, is brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place, event or to another literary work or passage |
| Q.3) | in writing, it is a short narrative episode usually included to introduce a subject or to make a point |
| Q.4) | a character who lacks the qualities needed for heroism, he/she is not noble in life or mind and does not have an attitude marked by high purpose or lofty aims |
| Q.5) | is the major character or force that opposes the protagonist |
| Q.6) | this is an event or conclusion that is an abrupt shift from the important to the comical or trivial |
| Q.7) | is the prevailing feeling that is created in a story, it usually ets up the reader's expectations about the ending or outcome of the plot and usually created through dialogue and imagery |
| Q.8) | a latin phrase meaning 'seize the day', the speaker in this poem emphasises that life is short and time is fleeinting, and therefore urges making the most of present pleasures |
| Q.9) | often the protagonist, undergoes a significant, lasting change, usually in his or her outlook on life |
| Q.10) | does not change in the course of a story, they often fail to achieve their goals or are defeated by therir unwillingness to change or adapt |
| Q.11) | is a realistic character having several sides to his/her nature |
| Q.12) | limited, usually a minor character who has only one apparent quality |
| Q.13) | the stereotyped figure who has occurred so often in fiction that his/her nature is immediately known |
| Q.14) | behavior, attitudes and opinions are in contrast to those of the protagonist, he/she helps the reader better understand the protagonist |
| Q.15) | character revelation through the author's or narrator's comments |
| Q.16) | character revelation through what the character says, does, thinks, and how he reacts |
| Q.17) | a description of a character's moral and personality quealities, written in paragraph form and with specific examples and quotations from the story, does not normally describe phyisical appearence |
| Q.18) | a trite or overused expression or idea |
| Q.19) | relying on chance too heavily can result in plot manipulation, giving the stoiry a turn unjustified by the situation or the characters involved |
| Q.20) | suited to spoken language or to informal writing, unique expressions which cannot often be literally translated (slang) |
| Q.21) | a trusted friend of the protagonist who shares his or her thoughts, feelings and intentions |
| Q.22) | refers to the overlap or mixing of opposite or different situations, characters, settings, moods, orpoints of view in order to clarifiy meaning, purpose, or character or to heighten certain moods, especially humour, horror, and suspense |
| Q.23) | a form of speech characteristic or a particular geographic region, social class, or people |
| Q.24) | a conversation including two or more characters in a story, often used to reveal character and conflict |
| Q.25) | a style of speaking or writing resulting from a deliberate choice and arrangement of words in a story, each writer uses it appropirate to his or her purpose, subject, story type, characters, and style |
| Q.26) | a situation in which a character must make a difficult choice between two disagreeable, undesirable, or unfavourable alternatives, one method to generate suspense in a story |
| Q.27) | a story ending in which there is no clear outcome or result |
| Q.28) | this is the type of story that begins and ends in the same situation or place |
| Q.29) | a moment of significant realization that happens to the main character, usually at the end of the story |
| Q.30) | an incident or single set of events within the main plot of the story |
| Q.31) | this refers to a type of fiction that is designed to help the reader forget the daily cares and problems of reality |
| Q.32) | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsh or offensive reality |
| Q.33) | a short narrative making a point and often employing animal characters that act like human beings |
| Q.34) | a highly exaggerated or improbable story, as a rule, events, characters, and the setting would not be posible or found in real life |
| Q.35) | language used in such a way as to force words out of their literal meanings and, by emphasising their connotations, to bring new insight and feeling to the subject desired |
| Q.36) | any narrative which is imagined or invented rather than historically or factually true |
| Q.37) | a plot device which shifts the story from the present to the past, usually done in order to illustrate an important point or to reveal a change in character |
| Q.38) | gives a hint of what is to happen later in the story |
| Q.39) | language which appeals to the senses and creates a mental image |
| Q.40) | concrete details and fugures of speech that help the reader to form vivid sense impressions of what is being described |
| Q.41) | this refers to stories which have meaningful, usually realisitc plots, conflics, settings and characters |
| Q.42) | a literary device which reveals conealed or contradictory meaning |
| Q.43) | this irony occurs when the author shares with the reader information not known by the character |
| Q.44) | this occurs when a set of curcumstances turn out differently from what was expected or consider appropirate |
| Q.45) | this occurs when a contrast is evident between what a character says and what that character acutally means |
| Q.46) | what is said is based exactly in reality without the comparisons used in figurative language |
| Q.47) | the use of specific regional detail in order to increase atmosphere or reader intrest and sense of setting |
| Q.48) | an account of an authors personal experiences, an autobiography |
| Q.49) | the impied or stated lesson of a story |
| Q.50) | this is what causes a character to do what he or she does |
| Q.51) | this is a suspense story which contains a crime and solution by detective |
| Q.52) | this is another word for story |
| Q.53) | this is a statement in which there is an apparaent contridiction which is acutally true |
| Q.54) | a literary work that imitates the characterisitc style of an author or work for comic effect or ridicule |
| Q.55) | this is taken from the greek root word for suffering or deep feeling, it occurs when the audience experiences the emotions of pity, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Q.56) | the storyline or organization of incidents in a story |
| Q.57) | consists of the events before the climax |
| Q.58) | the background information provided by the author to further the background information provided by the author to further the plot, confict, setting and characterization |
| Q.59) | this is the incident that initiates or begins the main conflict of the story |
| Q.60) | a struggle between opposing characters or forces, usually between the protagonist and somoene or something else |
| Q.61) | a moment of intense conlifct leading up to the climax |
| Q.62) | the part of a story immediately following a climax and lasting until the end of the story |
| Q.63) | the solving of all conflicts of the story |
| Q.64) | is a french term to describe the unknotting of plot or conflict following a climax |
| Q.65) | as applied to fiction, this term describes the vantage points from which the author relates the story |
| Q.66) | features the protagonist telling his or her own story directly to the reader |
| Q.67) | the narrator is similar to a television camera in that he/she only reports what is seena and heard without entering the minds of characters |
| Q.68) | the narrator reveals the minds of several or all characters, knowing and telling all from an all-seeing persepective |
| Q.69) | this refers to the main character as 'he' or she' and shows us only what one character thinks and feels |
| Q.70) | this is the language of everyday conversation and the language of paragraphs and most books, does not have an even rhythm |
| Q.71) | the main character in a story |
| Q.72) | the author may have one or more in a piece of work, such as to inform, satirize, criticize, pursuade, entertain or argue |
| Q.73) | when the opposite of what is meant is stated in order to intentionally hurt someone's feelings |
| Q.74) | the ridicule of an idea, person, or type sometimes in order to provoke change, usually mocks human weaknesses and immoral actions |
| Q.75) | this is imaginative writing which speculates about the effect of technology, science and the future on human beings |
| Q.76) | the quality in a story which aims at drawing forth unmerited tender feeling, faked emotion (over the top) |
| Q.77) | a brief, fictional prose narrative, usually having one main character, a single plot, a limted number of settings, a basis in truth (life-likeness), and one main effect to which every detail must contribute |
| Q.78) | the kind of language especially occuring in casual and playful speech, often characterized by expressions which are short lived |
| Q.79) | a modern technique for depicting thoughts and feeling of a chracter in an apparently natural way without logic or interruption |
| Q.80) | individual manner in which an author expresses his or her thoughts and feelings, usually determined by such grammical and sensory aspects as diction, sentences and images |
| Q.81) | minor storyline |
| Q.82) | the feeling of anxiety and uncertainty experienced by the reader about the outcome of events |
| Q.83) | has two levels of meaning, a literal level and a figurative level |
| Q.84) | the central idea of a story, usually impied rather than directly stated, it is the authors idea about life and can be impied or directly stated |
| Q.85) | is the authors attitude towards his/her subject or readers |
| Q.86) | saying less than what you mean for effect |
| Q.87) | a basic principle of writing which maintains that each part of a work should relate to a single purpose |
| Q.88) | this is a term that means that a story is broad enough to be applied to most people at any time or place |
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