Literary Definitions
The time and place where a story takes place
First Person- when the narrator is telling their own story (uses I, me, we, us)
Third Person Limited- The narrator only knows the thoughts/feelings of one character (uses he, she, they)
Third Person Omniscient- The narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of multiple characters (also uses he, she, they)
The writer’s, or speaker’s, attitude toward the subject. It can be conveyed through diction and detail.
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement) and paints a picture for the reader
The photographs from the story come from this place
Regular people (various sources)
The feeling the reader gets from the words and descriptions in the passage
The repetition of the first sound in multiple words close together in a piece of literature
A peculiar child
A child with a special ability
When an object or idea is used to represent something else
The dictionary/literal definition of a word
United States / Wales (Europe)
When a non-human object is given a human quality
Connotation
The implied meaning of a word/the association of a word
The decade when the story was written
2000s, 2010s, 90s, 80s
Leprechaun