Lit Terms
This is the message or lesson an author wants the reader to learn.
What is theme?
Using clues in the text + your own knowledge to make a guess.
What is inference?
Identify the error: “Their going to the store.”
What is “Their” should be “They’re”?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama are all examples of this.
What is genre?
When the opposite of what you expect happens.
What is irony?
The most important idea in a nonfiction text.
What is central idea?
Combine: “I was tired. I stayed up anyway.” (Use a conjunction.)
What is “I was tired, but I stayed up anyway”?
Repeating the same beginning sound in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
A struggle between a character and an outside force.
What is an external conflict?
This explains how an author supports their argument, or how you support your assertion in an AEC.
What is evidence?
This punctuation joins two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
Giving human traits to something non-human.
What is personification?
A type of figurative language where something stands for something else.
What is symbolism?
A character who changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character? (will also accept round character)
This is the reason an author writes a text—whether to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain.
What is the author’s purpose?
Choose the correct word: “Its/It’s raining outside.”
What is “It’s”?
A phrase or word that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
The opposite of hyperbole. It makes something seem less important than it is.
What is understatement?
This point of view uses “he,” “she,” and “they” and reveals only one character’s thoughts.
What is third person limited?
This is when you look at how one idea causes another.
What is cause and effect?
Fix the sentence: “Me and my friend is going to the game.”
What is “My friend and I are going to the game”?
The feeling a reader gets from a text.
What is mood?
The difference between tone and mood.
What is tone is the author’s attitude; mood is the reader’s feeling.