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TExES English 7-12 231 Latest Update with Certified Solutions Epic ✔✔A long poem reflecting the values of a society. Usually contains a protagonist, the lead character, and an antagonist, a cha... racter who opposes or competes with the protagonist who may possess supernatural powers. Protagonist ✔✔The lead character in literary work Fable ✔✔A tale in which animals take on human characteristics; usually written to provide a moral lesson (didactic) or to illustrate man's shortcomings. Farce ✔✔A light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, exaggerations, and violence. It is generally regarded as inferior to comedy because of its crude characterizations. Legend ✔✔A story of traditional, enduring quality from earlier times. Myth ✔✔Related the deeds of extraordinary beings and speak to a common truth about life. Alliteration ✔✔The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words in a line of writing; often used for poetic effect. Based on sound, not spelling. Allusion ✔✔Reference to a well-known person, place, object, event or literary work or work of art. The use of allusion implies shared literary and cultural experiences between author and reader. Anachronism ✔✔Placing an event, person or object out of its proper chronological place. Analogy ✔✔An inference that two dissimilar things share common traits. Antagonist ✔✔A character or force in conflict with the main (protagonist) character. Antithesis ✔✔A figure of speech in which a thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in parallel arrangements of words and phrases. Apostrophe ✔✔When a character turns away from the audience and directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality. Allows the character the opportunity to think aloud. Aside ✔✔Lines spoken directly to the audience by an actor Assonance ✔✔The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. Catharsis ✔✔The reader or audience feels compassion with the protagonist and experiences a sense of relief when watching a protagonist overcome great odds. Character ✔✔A person in a story, poem or play. Even if the character is an animal or a god, the character will have human characteristics. Static character ✔✔A character who does not change during the course of the story Dynamic character ✔✔A character that changes in some way during the story Flat character ✔✔A character who exhibit few personality traits in a literary work Round character ✔✔A complex character in a literary work Climax ✔✔The moment of the greatest emotional tension or suspense in a story or novel Connotation ✔✔A hidden meaning of a word usually determined by the context in which the word is used. Words may be negative or positive. Consonance ✔✔An example of near rhyme - the repetition of terminal consonant sounds; often used by poets to create rhyme. Denouement ✔✔A french term that literally "untying the knot" used to describe the moment of climax resolution a story Denotation ✔✔The literal dictionary meaning(s) of a word Eulogy ✔✔A speech or writing to praise or honor someone, most commonly spoken at a funeral Euphemism ✔✔A device where a direct, unpleasant expression is replaced by an indirect, pleasant phrase. Existentialism ✔✔Popularized by the writer, Sartre - believed that man determines his own destiny by the choices he makes, anchored in reality not idealized life. First-person narrative ✔✔A character in a story tells the story from this point of view, often using the pronouns I, me, or my. Flashback ✔✔A section of a literary work th [Show More]

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