Literary Terms
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Graphics & Media
100
A central message of a work of literature such as revenge.
What is theme?
100
The reason why characters act the way they do.
What is motivation?
100
The reason for writing a text such as to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
100
The group of people for whom a text is written.
What is audience?
100
The most common kind of graphic such as a photograph or drawing.
What is an illustration?
200
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
The time and place for a story.
What is setting?
200
A short restatement of a longer text.
What is a summary?
200
A procedural text gives __________ on how to do something.
What are instructions?
200
An arrangement of information in columns and rows.
What is a table?
300
When an author provides clues or hints about future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
An earlier event inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.
What is a flashback?
300
A statement that can be verified or proved.
What is a fact?
300
The ordering of information or events.
What is sequence?
300
A representation of events in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
400
The narrator is not a character in the story but is "all-knowing."
What is third-person omniscient (point of view)?
400
A form of irony used to express scorn or ridicule.
What is sarcasm?
400
A personal belief, a point of view that cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
400
This type of essay would argue or debate a topic.
What is persuasive?
400
An illustration with labels that describes something or shows how it works.
What is a diagram?
500
A character who serves as a contrast to another character, usually the main one.
What is a foil?
500
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true such as Macbeth's famous "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
What is a paradox?
500
An analysis of text, taking a position and expressing opinions.
What is a critique?
500
The author's or narrator's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
500
A graphic that shows the sequence of steps in a process, typically with boxes, circles, and arrows.
What is a flow chart?
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