Literary Terms

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  1. 2. Archetype of a character that exhibits goodness, has a kind heart, and inherent virtue. They are generally alone in the world and struggle to fight evil forces and restore balance and fairness in the world.
  2. 7. Stock descriptive words or phrases that allowed the poet to describe a character in terms that audience would recognize (ex: gray-eyed goddess Athena)
  3. 11. a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.
  4. 13. Elaborate extended comparisons using like or as
  5. 16. This final life-and-death Ordeal
  6. 18. Archetype of a character that we have little back ground knowledge of and is there to act as a motherly guide (ex Fairy Godmother)
  7. 19. Giving non human things human-like qualities
  8. 21. Archetype of a character that needs someone to come in and rescue them (ex Princess Peach)
  9. 22. Seven deadly sins, seven days in a week, creating the world in seven days, seven colors in the rainbow, seven gifts of holy spirit.
  10. 23. Protagonist is given a task or finds a problem
  11. 24. The Hero losses something, but returns stronger.
  12. 26. Ancient Greek word for hospitality
  13. 27. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
  14. 28. the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
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  1. 1. Any struggle between opposing forces
  2. 3. that the Hero has maintained and can apply all that he has brought back to the Ordinary World.
  3. 4. Mentor New or Existing character is an expert in the area the hero needs help with
  4. 5. When another worldly being or god-like creature directly interacts and intervenes with the hero.
  5. 6. The tragic hero evokes pity from the audience as they undergo a change in fortune from a positive situation at the beginning of the story. This hero will have a tragic flaw (hamartia) and sometimes end in the death of the hero.
  6. 8. The moral of the story
  7. 9. The Party of characters encounter challenges
  8. 10. World The Setting is introduced
  9. 12. The beginning of a story giving background information on prior events than the story.
  10. 14. Archetype of a character that is there to solely help the hero of the story on his quest. (Ex: Donkey from Shrek)
  11. 15. The Hero and Mentor cross the line from normal
  12. 17. 12 step process that almost all literature follows
  13. 20. When the story starts in the middle of the action
  14. 25. Comparing two like things WITHOUT “like” or “as”