Literary Terms-A
WHAT IS MS. ROUNTREE'S FAVORITE COLOR
PINK
WHAT IS MS. ROUNTREE'S FAVORITE GENRE of FILM and LITERATURE?
HORROR
NAME ONE OF MS. ROUNTREE'S FAVORITE RAPPERS?
*ANSWER MAY VARY*
WHAT IS MS. ROUNTREE'S FAVORITE CARTOON PROGRAM?
NICKELODEON, CARTOON NETWORK, OR DISNEY
CARTOON NETWORK
BEST IMPRESSION OF MS. ARMSTRONG
*MAY VARY*
WHAT IS THE INITIAL OF MS. ARMSTRONG'S FIRST NAME
P
The opponent or enemy of the main character.
What is antagonist?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
Common phrases or sayings when people say things that they do not literally mean like "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is idiom?
The comparison of two unlike things to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things. For example, "Karen was a ray of sunshine."
What is metaphor?
Describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas as though they possess human qualities or emotions. For example: "The moon smiled down on her."
What is personification?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
When two or more words in a group of words begin with the same sound. For example: Fred's frozen french fries.
What is alliteration?
A reference to another piece of history, art, literature, etc.
What is allusion?
Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story. Authors use ________ to build suspense and to prepare the reader for what happens later.
What is foreshadowing?
Language that portrays sensory experiences, or experiences of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
What is imagery?
A story's main message or moral.
What is theme?
The use of words whose sounds imitate the sounds of what they describe, such as hiss, murmur, growl, honk, buzz, woof, etc.
What is onomatopoeia?
A struggle between opposing characters or forces.
What is conflict?
A scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story. _________ provide background information about events happening during the current narration.
What is a flashback?
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
When two unlike things are compared using like or as. For example, "Randy's voice is like melted chocolate."
What is simile?
A play on words. For example: Put that down, it's nacho cheese!
What is a pun?
The main or central character of a work of literature.
What is a protagonist?
An object, setting, event, animal, or person that represents something else (a feeling, etc.). For example, in a story or play, rain could represent sadness or leaving the past behind.
What is a symbol?
The author's attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience. _______ is conveyed through the author's word choices and the details that he or she includes.
What is tone?
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature. It's the atmosphere that makes you feel a certain way when you "walk into" a story. For example: creepy, calm, romantic, sad, or tense.
What is mood?
The conversation between characters in a work of literature.
What is dialogue?
A character who undergoes a significant change over the course of a story.This may change in understanding, values, insight, etc.
What is a dynamic character?
A type of irony in which the audience knows something that one of the characters doesn't know.
What is dramatic irony?
A form of irony in which something happens that is the reverse of what you expected.
What is situational irony?
A type of irony in which what is said is the opposite of what you mean (sarcasm).
What is verbal irony?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The emotional impact of a word.
What is connotation?
A character who does not change over the course of the story.
What is a static character?
The means through which an author reveals a character's personality through actions and dialogue.
What is indirect characterization?