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Literary Analysis Terminology for Academic Writing Study online at quizlet.com/_2tog0o 1. Alliteration: is the practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound e.g "The twisting twinkled below" 2. Allusion: is a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or things 3. Analysis: A detailed examination of the elements or structure of something. 4. Body Paragraph: does the real work of the essay, developing, supporting, explaining, and proving the thesis. 5. Characterization: is the process of presenting the different aspects of character and personality of someone in a novel or short story or any other narrative depiction of human beings 6. Conclusion: A summary that states if your hypothesis was correct or incorrect and what the investigation showed, based on observations and data. 7. Connotation: is said to be the suggested or implied meaning of words to produce a harmonious effect 8. Denotation: is the strict, literal, or factual, or factual meaning of a word or phrace. 9. Details: are the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose. 26. Point of view: "a way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader it is the "vantage point" from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader. In the first- person point of view the narrator is a character in the story. Using the pronoun "I" the narrator tells us his or her own experiences but cannot reveal with certainty any other character's private thoughts. In the omniscient point of view the person telling the story or narrator knows everything that's going on in the story. In the limited third-person point of view the narrator is outside the story- like an omniscient narrator- but tells the story from the vantage point of one character." 27. Propaganda: Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. 28. Protagonist: is the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. Conversely, the antagonist is the person or force that opposes the protagonist 29. Pun: A play on words , or a joke based on words with several meanings or wirds that sound alike but have different meanings 30. Satire: is a form of writing that ridicules for the sake of remedying them. 31. Setting: is the time and place in wich events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place. 32. Simile: is a comparison of two different things or ideas through the ise of the words "like" or "as". It is a definitely stated comarison in which the auther say one thing is like another 33. Structure: is the framework or oranization of a literary selection. Fir example, the structure if fiction is usually determined by plot and by chapter division; the structure of drama depods upon its divsion into acts and scenes: the structure of an essay depends upon the organization of ideas; the structure of poetry is determined by its rhyme scheme and stanzatic forn 34. Style: is the writer's characteristice manner of employing langage 35. Suspense: is the quality of a short story, novel, play or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience incertain or tense about the outcome of events 36. Symbol: An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. Literary Analysis: is the practice of looking closely at small parts to see how they affect the whole. Literary analysis focuses on how plot/structure, character, setting, and many other techniques are used by the author to create meaning. 37. Theme: A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work 38. Thesis: Focus statement of an essay; premise statement upon which the point of view or discussion in the essay is based. 20. Metaphor: A comparison without using like or as 39. 21. Mood: How the reader feels about the text while reading. 22. Narrative: Any literary work that tells a story 23. Paraphrase: A restatement of a text or passage in other words (your own words) while still giving credit to the original source Tone: is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail. Tone can be serious, humorous, sarcastic, indignant, objective, etc. 40. Topic Sentence: A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. 41. Transition: A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph 42. Understatement: the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. 10. Dialogue: is the speech of characters in any kind of narrative, story, ot play 11. Diction: A speaker or writer's choice of words (formal, informal, colloquial, full of slang, poetic, ornate, plain, abstract, concrete, etc.); diction has a powerful effect on tone 12. Figurative Language: A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. 13. Flashback: is scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event 14. Foreshadowing: is the use of hints or clues in literature to suggest future action. 15. Hook: The first sentence or question in an essay that is designed to grab the reader's attention 16. Hyerbole: is a deliberate exaggeration in literature 17. Imagery: Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) 18. Irony: A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. 19. 24. Personification: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes 25. Plot: Sequence of events in a story