12 Terms
Contributors in Fiction
Fiction
Denotation
Literature; Fiction
The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications.
Characterization
Literature; Fiction
The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal characters through their speech, dress, manner, and actions.
Image
Literature; Fiction
A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. Imagery refers to the pattern of related details in a work. In some works one image predominates either by recurring throughout ...
Foil
Literature; Fiction
A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Onomatopoeia
Literature; Fiction
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. The following line from Pope's "Sound and Sense" onomatopoetically imitates in sound what it ...
