Literary Terms
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?
The main point, especially in argumentative writing.
What is the claim?
The narrator is a character in the story ("I" or "we").
What is 1st-person POV?
OBLIVION: "Even resentment is better than facing oblivion."
What is the state of being forgotten?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
What are FANBOYS?
The feeling the author inspires in the reader of a text.
What is mood?
The structure of sentences.
What is syntax?
The narrator tells the story but is not part of the action and only tells the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third-person limited POV?
DIFFUSION: "Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."
What is spread?
When the subject and verb match.
What is subject-verb agreement?
It applies to everyone, everywhere, at all times (past, present, future).
What is a universal theme?
The author's choice of words, especially regarding vocabulary (slang, colloquial lang., formality).
What is diction?
The narrator knows everything: all characters' thoughts, feelings, motivations, events in other places, etc.
What is third-person omniscient?
ILLUSORY : "Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined."
What is meaningless or appearing real but is not?
It tells what the subject does or is.
What is a predicate?
A story with two or more levels of meaning: a literal one and a symbolic one.
What is an allegory?
Includes Parallelism, Analogy, Charged language, Restatement, etc. and is often used in persuasive texts.
What is Rhetorical Devices?
Example: "As the campers settled into their tents, Zara hoped her eyes did not betray her fear, and Lisa silently wished for the night to quickly end"
What is 3rd-person omniscient?
ANTENATAL: "This self-same height? Accursed progeny/Of Sisyphus, what antenatal crime." Ante means 'previous'.
What is the error of those born before us?
It is a group of words w/its own subject & verb but can't stand on its own as a sentence.
What is a dependent or subordinate clause?
Refers to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
Language devices, especially the art of speaking or writing effectively.
What is rhetoric?
Example: "You wake up to the sound of rain drumming against the window. You pull the covers tighter around you, reluctant to face the day".
What is second-person POV?
AFFRONT TO THEIR SOVEREIGNTY: "The bill even gives them control over certain land in FL & GA, a serious affront to their sovereignty."
What is an insult to their independence?
It is a verb form that ends in -ing and is used as a noun.
What is a gerund?