Setting and Symbolism
A setting, an object, or an event in a story that carries more than a literal meaning
What is a SYMBOL?
POV where the narrator speaks directly to YOU, the reader, and tells you your story.
What is SECOND PERSON POV?
Giving human qualities to an inhuman object
What is PERSONIFICATION?
Poems that do not rhyme
What is FREE VERSE?
Use of a word that refers to a sound and whose pronunciation mimics that sound (ex: wham! Buzz! Pow! meow)
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
Indicates the time and place, when and where, of a literary text.
What is the SETTING?
A narrative technique in which the reader is taken inside the mind of the narrator, and they rapidly recount their thoughts/feelings/impressions as they come up in the narrative.
What is STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
Language that appeals to any of the five senses.
What is IMAGERY?
Rhyming words that do not quite sound alike (ex: rhyming “come” and “home.”)
What is NEAR RHYME or SLANT RHYME?
An event or plot point that disturbs the actions and life of a protagonist, and sets him or her to pursue the mission vigorously.
What is the INCITING INCIDENT?
A story that as a whole represents a larger point about society or human nature, whose different characters may represent real-life figures or concepts.
What is an ALLEGORY?
A layering technique in literature in which a story is introduced inside another story.
What is a FRAME NARRATIVE?
Words that are one syllable in length
What is MONOSYLLABIC?
Rhyme where at least one of the words is within the line (ex: “I went to town to buy a gown.”)
What is INTERNAL RHYME?
A Latin term meaning “in the middle of action.” When a narrative begins at or around the climax.
What is IN MEDIAS RES?
A reference to an earlier literary work or cultural symbol.
What is an ALLUSION?
A narrator who tells us what just one major or minor character is thinking and feeling.
What is a LIMITED NARRATOR?
Diction that is literary or academic
What is FORMAL DICTION?
Have or end with a sound that corresponds to another
What is RHYMING?
A narrator who recounts only what characters say or do, offering zero insight to what they are thinking. All interpretation is left to the readers. NO insights into the characters’ own thoughts and feelings.
What is an OBJECTIVE NARRATOR?
A symbol that is repeated throughout a text.
What is a MOTIF?
A naive/young, mentally ill, inebriated, biased, corrupt, or downright immoral narrator.
What is an UNRELIABLE NARRATOR?
when the speaker is addressing an audience/listener who is not there
What is APOSTROPHE?
repetition of initial sounds in a sequence of words or syllables
What is ALLITERATION?
a struggle between opposing forces in a story, usually one of these types
What is a CONFLICT?