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Definition: A foil is a character who serves as a contrast to another perhaps more primary character, so as to point out specific traits of the primary character. More Literary Terms Defined;
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A foil is a character whose personality and attitude is opposite the personality and attitude of another character. Because these characters contrast, each makes the personality of the other stand out. ... Beckson, Karl and Arthur Ganz. Literary Terms: A Dictionary. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1975.
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In its literary use, a foil is a character who works in the same way: a character who is set near protagonist in the work to make key characteristics stand out, to increase the key character's brilliance, so to speak.
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Literary term ... Literary works created for and intended for pure pleasure ... Used to designate the types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or, sometimes subject matter...
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Some literary critics call the reptition of any sounds alliteration. However, there are specialized terms for other sound-repetitions. ... A foil is a secondary character who contrasts with a major character; in Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras, whose fathers have been killed, are foils for Hamlet.
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However, anyone is welcome to try it out. Match the literary term with the sentence or phrase which demonstrates it. All 50 devices from the unit are given, plus a few simpler ones would should be a good review.
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This quiz was designed to accompany the Georgia Learning Connections "Literary, Structural, and Rhetorical Devices Unit." To access the full unit, click over to: . However, anyone is welcome to try it out. Match the literary term with the sentence or phrase which demonstrates it. ... However, anyone is welcome to try it out.
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Literary Terms ... A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. T. S. Eliot, in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock alludes (refers) to the biblical figure John the Baptist in the line, ... A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work. In Stephen Vincent...
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Fiction; 11.07.09 | This month, a Thanksgiving story, Falling from Ridge Street, by Charlene Logan Burnett: "Mama overheats even in a hard freeze. She’s got the turkey bundled up in a thermal blanket of tin foil wrap. ... I am so screwed. [Appropriateness of using profanity with dead literary legend? Unknown.]
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