LITERARY TERMS - Patterson

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Drama and Narrative 1. act 2. antagonist 3. aside 4. catharsis 5. character 5a. round character 5b. flat character 5c. dynamic character 5d. static character 6. climax 7. comedy 8. conflict 9. denouement 10. epiphany 11. exposition 12. falling action 13. genre 14. hamartia 15. hubris 17. imagery 18. in medias res 19. irony 19a. verbal irony 19b. tragic or dramatic irony 20. motivation 21. narrative 22. narrator 23. plot 24. point of view 24a. central first person 24b. peripheral first person 24c. limited omniscience 24d. unlimited omniscience 24e. objective 25. protagonist 26. pun 27. scene 28. setting 29. soliloquy 30. symbol 31. tragedy

Poetry 1. alliteration 2. allusion 3. apostrophe 4. assonance 5. ballad 7. blank verse 9. caesura 10. carpe diem 11. connotation 12. consonance 13. couplet 14. denotation 15. diction 16. elegy 17. end-stopped line 18. enjambment 20. exact rhyme 21. figurative language 22. free verse 23. hyperbole 24. iambic pentameter 25. imagery 25a. visual 25b. auditory 25c. olfactory 25d. tactile 25e. gustatory 25f. abstract 25g. concrete 26. internal rhyme 27. irony 28. lyric poetry 29. narrative poetry 30. metaphor 31. meter 32. onomatopoeia 33. pathos 34. personification 35. simile 36. sonnet 37. speaker 38. stanza 39. stress 40. tone 41. understatement