Literary Genres Terms

12 flashcards · Literature · by Meili Kingma

1. genre (examples)

   classification or category (fiction, fantasy, mystery)

2. conventions (examples)

   feature of a genre that a reader easily recognizes or understands examples: "once upon a time" (fairy tale) or "dear" (letter)

3. setting

   where and when

4. characterization

   the creation or construction of a fictional character

5. direct characteriztion

   the creation or construction of a fictional character that the author explicitly tells us

6. indirect characterization

   the creation or construction of a fictional character that the author gets across through actions, words, looks, and other's opinions

7. naive narrator (who is the naive narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird)

   young or innocent narrator (Scout is the naive narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird)

8. retrospective narrator

   a narrator who is looking back on something

9. 1st person point of view

   I/me perspective

10. empathy

    the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

11. infer

    educated guess

12. imply

    strongly suggest something without actually saying it