Literature Final Exam Study Guide

1. Literature Final ExamStudy Guide Salma Olivares #24 May 4,2011

2. Prose: Is an unpoetic language

3. Poetry: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

4. Novels: a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually  presentinga sequential organization of action and scenes.

5. Novellas: a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short  novel.

6. Short story: a piece of prose  fiction, usually under 10,000 words.

7. Nonfiction: the branch of literature comprising works of narrative Prose dealing with or  offering opinions or  conjectures upon fact sand reality, Including biography, history, and the essay  (opposed to fiction and  distinguished from poetry and drama).

8. Drama: a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a  story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended  to be acted on the stage; a play.

9. Folk Literature: Develop in every culture, reflecting the history and beliefs of the people who create it. Is part of an oral tradition in which stories are told, revised, and retold as they are passed from one generation to the next. It explains important events in the history of a people or the natural world.

10. Plot: Is a sequence of events linked by cause and effect.

11. Conflict: It is a problem.

12. Characters: the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or  thing.

13. Point of view: an opinion,  attitude, or judgment: He  refuses to  change his point of view in the matter.

14. Setting: the surroundings or  environment of anything.

15. Theme: The subject of the story.

16. Autobiography: an account of a person's life written  or otherwise recorded by that person.

17. Biography: A written account of another person's Life.

18. Expository Essay: presents a subject in detail, apart from criticism, argument, or development; i.e., the writer elucidates a subject by analyzing it. 

19. Essay: a short literary composition on a particular  theme or subject, usually in prose and  generally analytic,  speculative, or interpretative.

20. Descriptive: Expressing a quality of the word it modifies.

21. Personal: of, pertaining to, or coming as from a  particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.

22. Persuasive: able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very  persuasive argument.

23. Informational Text: anything used to give information in the text format. The can be anything, but it will give the person information about something.

24. Dialogue: the conversation  between characters in a novel, drama, etc.

25. Stage Directions: an instruction written into the script of a  play, indicating stage actions, movements of  performers, or Production requirements.

26. Characterization: portrayal; description: the actor's characterization  of a politician.

27. Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story  and has a plot.

28. Lyric Poem: a short poem of song like quality.

29. Form: external appearance  of a clearly defined area, as distinguished  from color or  material; configuration: a triangular form.

30. a mark or stroke  long in proportion  to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc.,  on a surface: a  line down the middle of the page. Line:

31. Stanzas: an arrangement of a  certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or  rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

32. Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat,  accent, or the like.

33. Rhyme: Identity in sound of some part,  especially the  end, of words or lines of verse.

34. Sound devices: also known as musical devices, are elements of literature and poetry that emphasize sound.

35. Alliteration: the commencement of two or more  stressed syllables of a word group either with the same  consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration),  as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ  from syllable to syllable (vocalic  alliteration), as in each to all. Compare consonance 

36. Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word, as cuckoo  or boom,  by imitation of a sound made by or associated  with its referent.

37. Figurative Language: speech or writing that departs from literal meaning  in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech  or writing employing figures of speech.

38. Legend: a nonhistorical or unverifiable story  handed down by  Tradition from  earlier times and  popularly acceptedas historical.

39. Folk Tale: a tale or legend originating and traditional among a  people or folk, especially  one forming part of the oraltradition of the common  people.

40. Myth: a traditional or legendary story, usually  concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or  demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

41. Fables: a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the  Hare.

42. Moral: expressing or conveying truths or counsel as to right conduct, as  a speaker or a literary work; moralizing: a  Moral novel.

43. Characters’ Motives: Is a technique authour's use to portray a character.

44. Character Traits: a distinctive but not  necessarily invariable feature exhibited by all individuals of a group and capable of being  described or measured

45. Speaker: a person who speaks.

46. Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may  be based: the  analogy between  the heart and a  pump.

47. Break down long sentences: Summarizing is briefly stating the main points of a piece of writing.

48. Internal Conflict: a struggle which takes place in the protagonist's mind and through which the character reaches a  new understanding or dynamic change.

49. Word Root: the form of a word  after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem".

50. Anecdote: a short, obscure historical  or biographical account.