![]() Literature | Glossary of Fiction Terms. Allegory. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary. Short stories : characters in conflict. [John E Warriner;]. Edition/Format. # Short story schema. AbeBooks.com: Characters in Conflict: Short Stories (Holt Short Stories) (9780030084638) by HOLT. Characters in Conflict: Short Stories (Holt Short Stories). Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's. Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes. Kay Boyle's story "Astronomer's. Wife" and Christina Rossetti's poem "Up- Hill" both contain. Alliteration. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood.". Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy."Antagonist. A character or force against which another character struggles. Creon is Antigone's antagonist in Sophocles' play Antigone. Teiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. Assonance. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a. I rose and told him of my woe." Whitman's. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal "I's".
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick. Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself."Character. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary. characters may be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of. In Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona is a major character. Bianca. Othello is a major character. Characterization. The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal. Readers come to. understand the character Miss Emily in Faulkner's story "A Rose for. ![]() Emily" through what she says, how she lives, and what she does. Climax. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. The climax. of John Updike's "A& P," for example, occurs when Sammy quits. Complication. An intensification of the conflict in a story. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central. Frank O'Connor's story "Guests of. Nation" provides a striking example, as does Ralph Ellison's "Battle. Royal."Conflict. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually. The conflict may occur within a character as. Lady Gregory's one- act play The Rising of. Moon exemplifies both types of conflict as the Policeman wrestles with. ![]() Connotation. The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation. Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" includes. Good men, the last. Their frail deeds might have danced in a green. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."Convention. A customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of. Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in. Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary. Denotation. The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play. In the following lines from Peter Meinke's. Advice to My Son" the references to flowers and fruit, bread and. To be specific, between the peony and rose. Plant squash and spinach, turnips and tomatoes; Beauty is nectar and nectar, in a desert, saves- -.. But, son,always serve wine. Denouement. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. The denouement of Hamlet takes place after the catastrophe. During the denouement Fortinbras makes. Horatio speaks his sweet lines in praise of Hamlet. Dialogue. The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction. dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays, characters'. Diction. The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction. We can speak of the diction particular to a character, as in Iago's. Desdemona's very different ways of speaking in Othello. We can. also refer to a poet's diction as represented over the body of his or her. Donne's or Hughes's diction. Exposition. The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which. Ibsen's A Doll's. House, for instance, begins with a conversation between the two central. Fable. A brief story with an explicit moral provided by the author. Fables. typically include animals as characters. Their most famous practitioner in the. Greek writer Aesop, whose "The Dog and the Shadow". The Wolf and the Mastiff" are included in this book. Falling action. In the plot of a story or play, the action following. The. falling action of Othello begins after Othello realizes that Iago is. Desdemona. Fiction. An imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama. Ibsen's. Nora is fictional, a "make- believe" character in a play, as are Hamlet. Othello. Characters like Robert Browning's Duke and Duchess from his. My Last Duchess" are fictional as well, though they may be based. And, of course, characters in stories and. The important thing to remember is that writers embellish and embroider and. They. fictionalize facts, and deviate from real- life situations as they "make. Figurative language. A form of language use in which writers and speakers. Examples include. Flashback. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or. Writers use flashbacks to complicate the sense of chronology in the. Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" includes flashbacks. Foil. A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a. Laertes, in Hamlet, is a foil for the main character. Othello, Emilia and Bianca are foils for Desdemona. Foreshadowing. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a. Ibsen's A Doll's House includes foreshadowing as does. Synge's Riders to the Sea. So, too, do Poe's "Cask of. Amontillado" and Chopin's "Story of an Hour."Hyperbole. A figure of speech involving exaggeration. John Donne uses. hyperbole in his poem: "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star."Image. A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or. Imagery refers to the pattern of related details in a work. In some. works one image predominates either by recurring throughout the work or by appearing. Often writers use multiple images throughout. Some modern poets, such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, write. Among. the most famous examples is Pound's poem "In a Station of the Metro": The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Imagery. The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly. Imagery of light and darkness pervade James Joyce's. Araby," "The Boarding House," and "The Dead.". So, too, does religious imagery. Irony. A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. In verbal irony, characters say the opposite of what they mean. In irony of. circumstance or situation, the opposite of what is expected occurs. In dramatic. irony, a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the. Flannery O'Connor's short stories. Poe's "Cask of Amontillado."Literal language. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean. See Figurative language, Denotation. Connotation. Metaphor. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly. An example is "My love. From Burns's "A Red, Red Rose." Langston Hughes's "Dream. Deferred" is built entirely of metaphors. Metaphor is one of the most important. Shakespeare employs a wide range of metaphor in. Compare Simile. Metonymy. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted. An example: "We have always remained loyal to the. See Synecdoche. Narrator. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished. For example, the narrator of Joyce's "Araby". James Joyce himself, but a literary fictional character created expressly. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" contains a communal. See Point of view. Onomatopoeia. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words. such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. The following line from. Pope's "Sound and Sense" onomatopoetically imitates in sound. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,The line too labors, and the words move slow. Most often, however, onomatopoeia refers to words and groups of words, such. Tennyson's description of the "murmur of innumerable bees,". Parable. A brief story that teaches a lesson often ethical or spiritual. Examples include "The Prodigal Son," from the New Testament, and the. Zen parable, "Learning to Be Silent." See Fable. Parody. A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic. Examples include. Bob Mc. Kenty's parody of Frost's "Dust of Snow" and Kenneth. Koch's parody of Williams's "This is Just to Say."Personification. The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts. An example: "The yellow leaves flaunted. Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely. Plot. The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict. Climax, Denouement, and. Flashback. Point of view. The angle of vision from which a story is narrated. See. Narrator. A work's point of view can be: first person. Protagonist. The main character of a literary work- -Hamlet. Othello in the plays named after them, Gregor Samsa in Kafka's Metamorphosis. Paul in Lawrence's "Rocking- Horse Winner."Recognition. The point at which a character understands his or her situation. Sophocles' Oedipus comes to this point near the end of. Oedipus the King; Othello comes to a similar understanding of his situation. Act V of Othello. Resolution. The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play. See Plot. Reversal. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected. Oedipus's and Othello's. They learn what they did not expect to learn. See Recognition and also Irony. Rising action. A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part. See Climax, Denouement, and Plot. Satire. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules. Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Chekhov's Marriage Proposal and O'Connor's. Everything That Rises Must Converge," have strong satirical elements. Setting. The time and place of a literary work that establish its context. The stories of Sandra Cisneros are set in the American southwest in the mid. James Joyce in Dublin, Ireland in the early 2. Simile. A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things. An example: "My love.
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