EOG 1
the problem in the story
conflict
Most exciting moment of the story; turning point
climax
A comparison without using like or as
simile
words that imitate sounds
onomatopoeia
The time and place of a story
setting
the introduction to a story, setting and characters
exposition
Type of figurative language that demotnstrates extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
The dictionary definition of a word
denotation
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
foreshadowing
type of figurative language where the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or ideas occurs
personification
What the narrator of the poem is called
speaker
a group of lines/paragraph in a poem
stanza
the attitudes and feelings associated with a word
How you can tell if the word is positive or negative
connotation
Which type of point of view occurs when a character in the story is the narrator
1st person pop
an all-knowing narrator tells the story and everything about the characters
3rd person omniscient
Conversation between characters
dialogue
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
imagery
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.
tone
A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
idiom
how the information within a written text is organized
text structure
a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
How people talk in a story
dialect
A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
symbolism
story of a person's life written by another person
biography
a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to
ex: He was the Hercules of football
allusion
when the narrator refers to one of the characters (or the reader) as "You"
2nd person pop