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Symbol

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A person place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meanings far beyond its literal sense, related to allegory, but more complex. Contains multiple meanings and associations.

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Romance

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A Narrative mode that employs exotic adventure and idealized emotion rather than realistic depiction of character and action.

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Suspence

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The pleasurable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention to the story.

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Diction

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Word choice or vocabulary.

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Regionalism

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Literary representation of specific locale - uses particulars of geography, custom, history, culture, or speech.

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Setting

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The overall time and place of the story - May include climate, social, psychological or spiritual state of characters.

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Atmosphere

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The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all parts of a literary work. Total effect of language, imagery, and setting.

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Participant or First-Person Narrator

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Narrator who is participant in the action. Narrator refers to themselves as “I”.

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Round Character

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A complex character who is presented in depth in a narrative, changes significantly during the course of narrative.

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Protagonist

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The main, or central character in a narrative.

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Antagonist

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Generally opposes the protagonist. It can be another character, society, a force of nature, or conflicting internal impulses.

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Climax

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The moment of greatest intensity of a story, typically occurs towards the end of the work.

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Foreshadowing

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An indication of events to come in a narrative.

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Epiphany

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A moment of profound insight or revelation by which the character’s life is greatly altered.

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Conflict

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The central struggle between two or more forces in a story, the basic material out of which plot is made.

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In Media Res

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“in the midst of things” - narrative device of starting a story midway in the events it describes.

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Denouement

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The “untying of the knot”. Also called the resolution.

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Didactic Poetry

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A poem intended to teach a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge.

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Persona

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Latin for “mask”. Fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a literary work.

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Portmanteau

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An artificial word that combines parts of other words to express some combination of their qualities. Ex: brunch.

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Onomatopoeia

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Represents a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it.

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Myth

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Traditional narrative that arises out of a given culture’s oral tradition. Characters are often gods, heroic figures.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line of verse.

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Simile

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A comparison between two thing, usually via “like, as, or than” or a verb such as “resembles”. Typically compares two things that would initially seem similar, but are shown to have significant resemblance. Ex: Cool as a cucumber.

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Image

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A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience (usually sight); a direct or literal recreation of physical experience.

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Metaphor

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A statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it’s not. Creates close association between two entities and underscores an important similarity between them. Ex: William is a pig.

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Overstatement (aka Hyperbole)

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Exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

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Tragedy

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Typically ends sorrowfully, but is an outcome that seems inevitable.

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Orchestra

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‘The place for dancing’

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Hubris

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Overweening pride, outrageous behavior.

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Deus Ex Machina

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Latin for ‘god out of the machine’

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Catharsis (Katharsis)

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Feeling of emotional release or calm at the end of a tragedy.

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Exposition

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Opening portion of narrative/drama.

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Play

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A work of storytelling in which actions represent the characters.

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Soliloquy

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Also called a monologue, provides insight into character’s inner life.

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Chorus

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A group of citizens who stand to one side of the action, conversing with both the characters and the audience.

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Globe Theater

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Was reconstructed in London (1997). Most celebrated of Elizabethan theaters.

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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Theatrical company that Shakespeare belonged to.