antecedent literary definition
Characterization  the description of a characters personality or appearance.  Direct characterization  the author tells you explicitly about a characters personality or appearance.  Indirect characterization  the personality or appearance has to be determined from hints or clues. Archetype  a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied or emulated. Dynamic character  a character that changes throughout the story.  Static character  a character that does not change throughout the story. 1. an event, circumstance, etc, that happens before another. 2. (Grammar) grammar a word or phrase to which a pronoun refers. In the sentence People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, people is the antecedent of who. 3. (Logic) logic the hypothetical clause, usually introduced by if, in a conditional statement: that which implies the other. She heard them as if they came from people in another world, a world antecedent to her world, a world that was the prelude, the antechamber to reality; it was as if, lately dead, she heard the living talking. Conflict  struggle against opposing forces that the main character(s) undergo [usually man v. man, man v. self, or man v. nature (or non-human outside source)] Dialogue  verbal exchange between two characters. Epiphany  a sudden realization of a great or fundamental truth. Flashback  past events and conversations that are recalled. Figurative language  language that is used to describe one thing in terms of another; not to be taken literally. Clich  a term so overused that it has lost its original meaning and strength. Remember that a pronoun is a word that takes the place of or refers to a noun. An antecedent is the word that a pronoun replaces or refers to. A vague pronoun reference occurs when there's no antecedent provided at all, or when there's more than one possible antecedent. The Antecedent Action is that part of the characters' experiences which precedes the events of the story. Look at the other class of pleasures which have no antecedent pains and you will no longer suppose, as you perhaps may at present, that pleasure is only the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure. In our example sentence, the word 'he' is a pronoun that takes the place of the noun 'astronaut'. Without the pronoun in this sentence, we'd have to say, The astronaut could not remember where the astronaut parked. There's a special grammatical term that we use to name the word 'astronaut' in this sentence, beyond just calling it 'the noun.' In this sentence, 'astronaut' is an antecedent. An antecedent is the word that a pronoun replaces or refers to. Any time that you have a pronoun, you'll have an antecedent, even if it's not in the very same sentence. This makes sense; if we didn't have an antecedent for every pronoun, we'd be left with a lot of confusion. uk ​ /ˌæn.tiˈsiː.dənt/ us ​ /ˌæn.t̬əˈsiː.dənt/. › formal someone or something existing or happening before, especially as the cause or origin of something existing or happening later: Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer. Many people feel a great curiosity to find out about their antecedents. › specialized language a word or phrase that a pronoun refers back to: In the sentence He picked a book off the shelf and handed it to Sally, book is the antecedent of it.
It means formal someone or something existing or happening before, especially as the cause or origin of something existing or happening later.