Reading Literary I
Literary
Literary
A specific type of writing or literature.
What is genre?
The most common structure of a novel or story.
What is Chronological?
The narrator tells the events from the perspective of one specific character, focusing on this character’s thoughts and feelings
What is Third Person Limited POV?
Language choices, techniques, and strategies used to communicate perspective and to persuade the perspectives of others. (i.e., persuasive speech and writing)
What is Rhetoric?
Situations in which the audience knows more than the character onstage.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The choices an author makes to reveal (or not reveal) a character’s traits or personality
What is Characterization?
A struggle between a character and an outside force.
An all-knowing narrator not only tells what happens, but also may interpret events and describe the thoughts and feelings of any character.
What is Third Person Omniscient POV?
The deeper message of a text. It refers to a universal statement about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text.
What is Theme?
What is Dialogue?
When the reader is told what a character is like; a speaker or narrator describes what he or she thinks about a character.
What is Direct Characterization?
A struggle within a character’s mind.
What is Internal Conflict?
The author’s words or writing style is used to express his or her attitude toward the topic or character.
What is Tone?
Language that appeals to the senses, allows the reader to experience what the author is describing.
What is Imagery?
Long speech by one character in which the character speaks about his or her thoughts and feelings
What is Monologue?
When a reader must infer what a character is like; the text provides clues through the character’s words, thoughts, or actions or through other characters’ words, thoughts, or actions, but there is no evaluation or explanation from a narrator.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The events are told by a character in the story using his or her own words.
What is First Person POV.
Word Choice.
What is Diction?
Writers use language to express something more than the literal meaning of the words.
What is Symbolism?
Repetition of terminal sounds in two or more words.
What is Rhyme?
When and where a narrative such as a story, drama, or poem takes place and establishes the context for the literary work
What is Setting?
The narrator addresses the reader directly using the word you(your, yours). This point of view is often used for giving directions (example: cookbook).
What is Second Person POV.
The order of words and phrases in a sentence
What is Syntax?
The two most common types of genres are tragedies and comedies.
What is Drama?
Occurs at the ends of lines of poetry. It is the most common type of rhyme.
What is End Rhyme?