Unit 1
Detailed description of at least one of the five senses.
What is imagery?
The attempt of getting someone to believe something or do something.
What is persuasion?
The main message, or lesson.
Repetition of initial sounds in two or more words.
What is alliteration?
The main character who takes part in most actions or events in a story.
What is the protagonist?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
Appealing to the emotions.
What is pathos?
When the author describes a character.
What is direct characterization?
What is personification?
The character who has conflict with the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Appealing to one's sense of logic.
What is logos?
When clues about a character are given through what the character says, does, thinks, etc.
Purposefully repeating words, lines, or phrases in order to emphasize an idea.
What is repetition?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
A comparison of two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
What is ethos?
An acronym to help you remember how an author might use indirect characterization.
What is STEAL (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, Looks)?
Tools used by a poet to emphasize meaning, contribute to mood, and/or create rhythm.
What are poetic devices?
A struggle within one individual (man vs. self)?
What is internal conflict?
Tools a writer uses to enhance meaning or produce a special effect.
What are literary devices?
Device used to get the audience to think or feel a certain way.
What is appeal?
Includes a subject, verb, and complete thought.
What is a complete sentence?
The repetition of sounds at the end of lines.
What is rhyme.
A struggle between individuals or individuals and events (man vs. man; man vs. nature).
What is external conflict?