literary+devises+definition

**Plot**: Plot concerns the organization of the main events of a work of fiction. Plot differs from story in that plot is concerned with how events are related, how they are structured, and how they enact change in the major characters

**Introduction**: provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the protagonist, the antagonist, the basic conflict, and the setting.

**Rising** **Action** : During rising action, the basic internal conflict is complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts, including various obstacles that frustrate the protagonist's attempt to reach his goal

**Climax**: The third act is that of the climax, or turning point, which marks a change, for the better or the worse, in the protagonist’s affairs.

**Conclusion**: The close or last part; the end or finish.

**Character Types:** flat: a character who reveals only one, maybe two, personality traits in a story or novel, and the trait(s) do not change

**round**: a well developed character who demonstrates varied and sometimes contradictory traits. Round characters are usually dynamic (change in some way over the course of a story).

**static**:  a character that remains primarily the same throughout a story or novel. Events in the story do not alter a static character’s outlook, personality, motivation, perception, habits, etc

**dynamic**: a character which changes during the course of a story or novel. The change in outlook or character is permanent. Sometimes a dynamic character is called a developing character

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**irony**: the appearance of things differs from their reality, whether in terms of meaning, situation, or action.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**theme**: a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**protagonist**: A protagonist is considered to be the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**antagonist**: a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works again the main character, or protagonist, in some way

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**personification**: A figure of speech where animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**metaphor**: a type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but, literally, it is not. In connecting one object, event, or place, to another, a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**simile**: a simile is a type of figurative language, language that does not mean exactly what it says, that makes a comparison between two otherwise unalike objects or ideas by connecting them with the words "like" or "as."


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Allusion **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">: is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Oxymoron**: An oxymoron is a type of paradox that combines two terms ordinarily seen as opposites, such as Milton's description of God in Paradise Lost as "Dark with excessive bright."

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Symbol**: Generally speaking, a symbol is a sign representing something other than itself.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Euphemism**: Euphemism is the use of roundabout language to replace colloquial terms that are considered too blunt or unpleasant.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**satire**: uses a fictional narrative in which characters who represent particular points of view are made ridiculous by their own behaviour and thoughts, and by the narrator's usually ironic commentary.