Literary Terms
The plan of a story that has some similarities to a rainbow.
Sidebars, Pictures, Headings and Glossaries are all these.
What are Text Features?
Bang! Zip! Or, even Meow!
What is Onomatopoeia?
Example: I drop the greats like clumsy waiters drop plates.
What is simile?
To express or cover the main points/central ideas briefly.
What is to Summarize?
What is Summarize?
The big message of a book, film or other work.
What is the Theme?
What is an argument?
Example: I'm glad she got a taste of her own medicine.
What is an idiom?
Example: The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the bright sun
What is alliteration?
To study or examine something in great detail to learn and discover more about it.
What is to Analyze?
What is Analyzation?
This example of PoV:
I looked down the street and saw several cars approach, slowly.
What is First Person?
The most important thoughts of a text.
Example: My heart is breaking into a million pieces!
What is hyperbole?
Example: "No barkin' from the dog, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog."
What is Assonance?
Noting what is similar and what is different about two or more things.
What is Compare and Contrast?
The author's attitude towards a subject.
What is Tone?
Sometimes it is to persuade, sometimes it is to entertain, sometimes it is to inform, and sometimes its a combination of any and all three.
What is the Author's Purpose?
This is language that uses figures of speech to create an effect beyond the literal meaning of words
A group of lines in a poem, often separated by a blank line or space.
What is a Stanza?
Judging or calculating the quality, importance, amount or value of something.
What is to Evaluate?
What is Evaluation?
The atmosphere of a piece of writing; the emotions that figurative language create.
What is the mood?
This includes chronological, comparison, cause and effect and problem and solution.
What is Text Structure?
Example: See the line where the sky meets the sea it calls me.
What is personification?
The use of objects, characters or ideas to represent something else such as emotions or feelings.
What is Symbolism?
To deduce or figure out information from evidence and educated guesses, rather than from explicit statements.
What is to Infer?
What is Inference?