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	Literary Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Throughout the school year the students are responsible for learning the literary terms found in the back of their literature text (pg1472).
		A literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which emphasized fancy, freedom, nature, and individual rights.
		A literary movement of nineteenth century France, which stressed the importance of suggestion and evocation of emotional states.
	rhs10595-01.k12.fsu.edu /litterms.html (905 words)

	Literary antagonist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The antagonist is the character (or group of characters) of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend.
		Note that the antagonist is not necessarily human; often, the forces of nature or psychological elements provide this element of opposition.
		For instance, in the story of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, the antagonist may be regarded as the whale "Moby Dick" of the title, against which the story's leading character Captain Ahab strives.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/literary_antagonist (304 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms A through E - Meyer Literature
		Antagonist The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story; an opponent of the protagonist, such as Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.
		Typically, ballads are dramatic, condensed, and impersonal narratives, such as "Bonny Barbara Allan." A literary ballad is a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the language, form, and spirit of the traditional ballad, such as Keats’s "La Belle Dame sans Merci." See also ballad stanza, quatrain.
		The antagonist is the character, force, or collection of forces that stands directly opposed to the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm (2962 words)

	Literature \| Glossary of Drama Terms
		A customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
		Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play.
		The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072405228/student_view0/drama_glossary.html (3482 words)

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		The protagonists Gustav Von Aschenbach in Death in Venice and Richard in The Beach are defined by their antagonists, for the antagonists do things that affect the protagonist’s actions and life, the antagonists also represent things or people that the protagonist admires.
		However, an antagonist is “One that contends with or opposes,” the protagonist, whether they do it intentionally or not, an antagonist is an adversary or an opponent to the protagonist.
		The antagonists in Death in Venice and The Beach are undeniable adversaries to the protagonists Gustav Von Aschenbach and Richard.
	www.du.edu /~jbanuelo/deathbeach.doc (2013 words)

	Literary Devices
		An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text.
		Most literary essay tasks will instruct the writer to “avoid plot summary;” the term is therefore rarely useful for response or critical analysis.
		Tragedy is really more of a dramatic genre than a literary element; a play can be referred to as a tragedy, but tragic events in a story are essentially part of the plot, rather than a literary device in themselves.
	mrbraiman.home.att.net /lit.htm (2061 words)

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		Creon is Antigone's antagonist in Sophocles' play Antigone; Teiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King.
		Literary characters may be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change).
		ThemeThe idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.
	members.aol.com /carlevarom/documents/GlossaryofFictionterms.doc (2372 words)

	Literary Terms
		The antagonist is the opponent; the antagonist may be society, nature, a person, or an aspect of the protagonist.
		Literary convention: a practice or device which is accepted as a necessary, useful, or given feature of a genre, e.g., the proscenium stage (the "picture-frame" stage of most theaters), a soliloquy, the epithet or boast in the epic (which those of you who took Core Studies 1 will be familiar with).
		Theme: (1) the abstract concept explored in a literary work; (2) frequently recurring ideas, such as enjoy-life while-you-can; (3) repetition of a meaningful element in a work, such as references to sight, vision, and blindness in Oedipus Rex.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/lit_term.html (3013 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms
		dramatic monologue (dra-MA-tik mon'-O-lôg): a literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings, those that are hidden throughout the course of the story line, through a poem or a speech.
		These literary works were very popular during the Renaissance in Europe in the late 14th century and the Neoclassical period, which began after the Restoration in 1660.
		Gothic (goth-IK): a literary style popular during the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm (9849 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This term was introduced to literary criticismfrom the psychology of Carl Jung.
		Archetypes are the literary images that grow out of the "collective unconscious." They appear in literatureas incidents and plots that repeat basic patterns of life.
		Examples of literary archetypes include themes such as birth and death and characters such as the Earth Mother.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/glossary/index.htm (2250 words)

	Character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the protagonist is flawed or dominated by negative traits or questionable behavior, he or she is called an "anti-hero." The term "anti-hero" does not, however, mean that the central character stands in opposition to an actual hero in the story or novel.
		In general, the antagonist will be viewed as bad, wicked, or malicious.
		Even if dominated by negative traits, however, the antagonist can be just as significant and complex a character as the protagonist.
	www.delmar.edu /engl/wrtctr/handouts/conflict.htm (596 words)

	Allegory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The antagonist may not be obvious, in which case you could choose a candidate and discuss why he or she deserves to be thought of as the antagonist.
		An antagonist may not even be a person – or may be the same person as the main character.
		In a literary context, the persona is the character of the first-person narrator in verse or prose narratives, and the speaker in lyric poetry.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~lanes/english/literms.htm (6356 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms
		The New Critics were united in their emphasis on dealing with the text directly; they insisted that a work of art be considered as an autonomous whole, without regard to biographical, cultural, or social speculations” (Source : Benet's, 726).
		Cultural and literary postmodernism, which began in the 1960s, is “a tentative grouping of ideas, stylistic traits, and thematic preoccupations that set the last four decades apart from earlier eras” (x).
		The antagonist was the second most important character and the other contender in the agon, the dispute or debate that formed part of a Greek tragedy.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /glossary.html (4544 words)

	Literary Terms: A - C
		Although the antagonist often acts against the protagonist, they do not have to be a villain, they can simply just be the character acting against the protagonist.
		Atmosphere is the mood or persistent feeling implied by a literary work.
		An author establishes atmosphere partly through description of setting and partly by the objects chosen to be described.
	web.cocc.edu /lisal/literaryterms/a_c.htm (1747 words)

	University of Montevallo - Harbert Writing Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The antagonist may not be obvious, in which case you could choose a candidate and discuss why he or she deserves to be thought of as the antagonist.
		An antagonist may not even be a person - or may be the same person as the main character.
		He or she might be an observer who happens to see the events of the story (as in Conrad's Heart of Darkness [1902]), or play a minor role in the action (as in Melville's Moby-Dick [1851]), or might be a protagonist (as in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye [1951]).
	www.montevallo.edu /hwc/Handouts/LiteraryTerms.shtm (5989 words)

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		The antagonist can be the self, another person, animal, nature, technology/machine, society, or the supernatural
		Flashback: a strategy of plot sequencing where the author takes the reader back to events that occurred before the present time in the story.
		Antagonist: the force that works against the protagonist; the antagonist does not have to be a person (see types of conflicts)
	www.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us /cyberenglish9/Gen_Info/terms_definitions.htm (1706 words)

	PHS Information
		Identify and discuss, using appropriate terminology, the use of dramatic structure [e.g., exposition, development, climax, reversal, denouement (also illustrated in Freytag's Pyramid), tension]; character (e.g., protagonist, antagonist); literary devices (e.g., symbolism, foreshadowing); and components of drama/theatre (dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, ensemble, body, voice, script, sensory recall).
		Evaluate the influence of literary elements (e.g., characterization, setting, point of view, plot, structure) within a passage.
		Literary forms in the portfolio include poems, short stories, and scripts/plays.
	www.phs.floyd.k12.ky.us /corecontent/content.html (8732 words)

	Baxter, Charles; Burning Down The House
		I have a feeling that the literary short story took up secular epiphanies because the movies didn't need them, or at least didn't require them as much as other more visible and dynamic narrative ingredients.
		Yet that would seem to be a part of the whole atmosphere Baxter is trying to explore and unearth, the social ambiguity he discusses is not limited to the world but to his own work.
		Their sparring partners are not real antagonists because the bad guys usually confess and then immediately disavow.
	www.bluffton.edu /homepages/FacStaff/gundyj/Exposreviews/Toby.htm (625 words)

	Literary Elements: Lecture Outline
		The literary quality of a fictional book is based not upon its popularity or the ease with which it can be read, but upon the quality of the literary elements found in the book.
		Students who are unfamiliar with the literary elements or who need a greater understanding of literary quality than is presented here and in the text should read A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, by Rebecca J. Lukens.
		The antagonist is the force in conflict with the protagonist.
	www.cas.usf.edu /lis/lis6585/class/litelem.html (3198 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Williams, William Carlos
		He was especially bitter about the defections of his friends Ezra Pound and H. (Hilda Doolittle), as well as T.
		Eliot, whom he singled out as his literary antagonist.
		Williams sees Poe not as “a fault of nature” but as “a genius intimately shaped by his [American] locality and time”, who rejected the banality of his literary inheritance (Longfellow, for example) in favor of an original style – a language and a method – that resisted conformity.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4739 (2972 words)

	Narrative, narration, narratology
		In literary theory, these stories are also called texts and are very broadly categorized.
		Genette's work is one of the clearest of all the French theorists of the 1970s and 1980s who became popular among literary critics and theorists in the US.
		His work is easily the most empirical of his academic geration of French theorists and perhaps the most likely to be useful in generations to come.
	www.jahsonic.com /Narrative.html (998 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Schaff, 1910 edition with power search.
		But such things show how Christianity in that day exerted, even upon its opponents, a power, to which heathenism was forced to yield an unwilling assent.
		The last literary antagonist of Christianity in our period is Hierocles, who, while governor of Bythynia, and afterwards of Alexandria under Diocletian, persecuted that religion also with the sword, and exposed Christian maidens to a worse fate than death.
		His "Truth-loving Words to the Christians" has been destroyed, like Porphyry’s work, by the mistaken zeal of Christian emperors, and is known to us only through the answer of Eusebius of Caesarea.
	www.bible.ca /history/philip-schaff/2_ch03.htm (8478 words)

	Literary Terms
		In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Bob Ewell serves as antagonist to the Finch family, but actually the greater antagonist is the bigotry and prejudice.
		This is strictly a technical term the denotes the part of the story where, now that it has been read or seen, the reader or audience can see when either the protagonist or the antagonist won.
		Antagonist: The character or force which opposes the protagonist.
	www.masconomet.org /teachers/trevenen/litterms.htm (4019 words)

	Arts & Humanities - High School
		The learner will be able to create a short dance which communicates a contemporary social issue based on a historical event(s) or literary character(s).
		The learner will be able to identify and discuss, using appropriate terminology, the use of dramatic structure [e.g., exposition, development, climax, reversal, denouement (also illustrated in Freytag’s Pyramid), tension]; character (e.g., protagonist, antagonist); literary devices (e.g., symbolism, foreshadowing); and components of drama/theatre (dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, ensemble, body, voice, script, sensory recall).
		The learner will be able to analyze the features and purposes of literary genres (novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays, biographies).
	www.madison.k12.ky.us /district/curriculum/arts-humanities/CR015566.HTM (1609 words)

	Literary Terms A - E
		The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work: Methods may include (1) by what the character says about himself or herself; (2) by what others reveal about the character; and (3) by the character's own actions.
		A literary work which is amusing and ends happily.
		In modern Situation Comedies, characters are thrown into absurd situations and are forced to deal with those situations, all the while reciting clever lines for the amusement of a live or television or movie audience.
	www.lausd.k12.ca.us /lausd/resources/shakespeare/Literary.Terms.html (3010 words)

	Literary Dictionary - Poetry Section
		The young waiter in Ernest Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place can be seen as the antagonist to the old man's protagonist, in that his attitudes are directly opposed to those of the old man.
		However, one could also argue that Hamlet is both the protagonist and the antagonist, his downfall a consequence of his own, misguided actions.
		If one views Pip as the novel's protagonist, then it must be agreed that it is the actions of Miss Havisham that create the obstacles for him to overcome.
	www.northern.edu /benkertl/short_fiction_dictionary.html (3204 words)

	EmperorFred's StoreHouse - School Work
		I had trouble really coming up with a good lie, but I still enjoy reading this story.
		Antagonist Amy Adams and I were assigned a project where we had to descibe to the class in several ways what the literary device 'antagonist' was.
		One of our ways was this story, written by Amy, edited (badly) by myself.
	www.angelfire.com /ca4/emperorfred/school.html (148 words)

	Literary Elements
		Theme differs from the subject or topic of a literary work in that it involves a statement or opinion about the topic.
		It is important to recognize the difference between the theme of a literary work and the subject of a literary work.
		The subject is the topic on which an author has chosen to write.
	www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us /yorba/literary_elements.htm (1520 words)

	Lenin: 1908/mec: 1. The 'Thing-In-Itself,' or V. Chernov Refutes Frederick Engels
		One is ashamed to confess it, but it would be a sin to conceal the fact that on this occasion open enmity towards Marxism has made Mr.
		Victor Chernov a more principled literary antagonist than our comrades in party and opponents in philosophy.
		You have done away with the statement that Cheraov is a ’more honest’ antagonist than they are, and that is a great pity.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/02.htm (2279 words)

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