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The character who works against the main character and is usually the source of the conflict.

Antagonist

100
The part of the story where setting, characters, and background information is established.
Exposition
100
A category of literature or film.
Genre
100
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
Mood
100
An affix that comes after the base word to create a new word, such as forget + able = forgettable.
Suffix
200
From the Greek word for ladder, it is the moment in a story when the conflict or crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is usualy the turning point in the story's action.
Climax
200

The strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary regardless of its emotional connotation.

Denotation

200

A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Haiku

200
The part of the story where conflict starts and escalates. These parts are necessary to bring about the climax.
Rising Action
200

Define the Literary Term: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing used to make a description more emphatic or vivid ("like" or "as") 

Simile

300

Define the Literary Term: The beginning sound of a word is repeated throughout a sentence

Alliteration

300

Another word for "word choice"

Diction

300
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
Falling Action
300

Define the Literary Term: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named 

Onomatopoeia 

300
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The way an author conveys his/her attitude about particular characters and subject matter. In poetry, it is called “voice.” It is the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s].
Tone
400

The “extra” meaning a word carries beyond its strict dictionary meaning. For example, “home” means the same as “house” but “home” also carries the meaning that certain qualities and personal possessions are also implied.

Connotation

400

A round character who changes or evolves over the course of the story.

Dynamic Character

400
Mental pictures that a reader experiences with a passage of literature.
Imagery
400
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. …Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
Personification
400

A technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. It is an art of discourse, which studies and employs various methods to convince, influence, or please an audience.

Rhetoric

500

A reference to something famous to make a point. For example, if your teacher calls your class a horde of Mongols, students would have no idea if they were being praised or reprimanded unless they know what the Mongol horde was.

Allusion

500
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: In many medieval literature pieces, a raven, a wolf, eagle or vulture appear and because these creatures scavenge bodies of fallen warriors, they allow the reader to predict a battle is about to begin.
Foreshadowing
500

a phrase having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

Idiom

500

A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

Juxtaposition

500
An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern that may be subdivisions of a poem.
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