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Instant Free Download · Update to Latest Version! · Reviewed and TrustedTypes: Games, Music & Audio, Social Networks, Communication, Tools & Utilities. CONCRETE TERMS: terms that represent, or try to evoke images or experiences of specific, tangible objects or entities that exist physically and can be experienced through the senses. THEME: The general idea or meaning of a literary work. A theme may not always be explicit or easy to state, and a work of literature may contain more than one theme. Theme is generally the most important part of any literary interpretation. The theme of Ernest Hemingway's short story. Denotation: the precise, literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations or overtones. Denouement: the final unraveling or outcome of the plot in drama or fiction during which the complications and conflicts of the plot are resolved. Glossary of Literary Terms When writing a literary analysis or a poetic explication, the student’s job is to ask how the writer says what he or she is saying and why. Examining the how and why is analysis and the process involves reading closely to see which ‘tools’ the writer has purposely employed to develop a specific effect or meaning. May 8, · AP ENGLISH LITERATURE: LITERARY TERMS ACTION: The bare events in a story. Action should not be confused with plot. Plot includes the meaning and purpose of the events. The action in Hamlet, for example, simply begins with the guards' visitation by the Ghost and ends with the carrying out of the dead Hamlet. CLASSICAL is a term which originally referred to the literary works of early Greece and Rome. CLICHÉ refers to an expression which was once original, but has since been used so frequently that it has become trite. e.g. high and dry, sober as a judge, doing his own thing. Fiction: A literary work whose content is based on the imagination and not on fact. Glossary: An alphabetical listing of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translation; usually found at the end of a book.