Literary Terms
Character: The embodiment of a person in a drama or narrative through verbal representation or actions. It is through their dialogs and actions that the readers or audience is able to understand the moral, intellectual and emotional qualities of that character and thus the overall story.
Foreshadowing is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.
Foreshadowing is a tool used to give the reader or audience a hint of what may
happen ahead.
Oxymoron: A literary device in which two words that contradict each other in meaning are used together to form a paradox.
Oxymoron is putting two contradictory words together.
Examples:
hot ice, cold fire, wise fool, sad joy,
Plot: The effect of the structure and relationship of the actions, events and characters in a fictional work.
Point of View:It is a narrative method which determines the manner in which and the position from where, a story is told.
Point of viewis the perspective from which a story is told. We may choose to tell our story in:
second person, "you," the least common point of view.
First person :limits the reader to one character's perspective