Literary Terms
taken from a text
What is excerpted?
refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
Writing that is not meant to be taken literally
Figurative Language
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Rhythm
In literature, refers to the step-by-step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character
Characterization
what the text is mainly about
What is central idea?
a statement that someone makes in answer to a statement that has been made by someone else
What is a counter-claim?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Allusion
the idea that things represent other things
What is symbolism?
The use of words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Simile
to make something clear or easier to understand
What is clarify?
Tension between opposing forces is what literary term?
What is conflict?
a type of essay that presents arguments about both sides of an issue
What is an argumentative essay?
something suggested by a word or thing : implication
What is a connotation?
A three-lined Japanese verse
Haiku
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
What is a stanza?
to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
What is convey?
Which is an example of internal conflict?
JD vs. Sarina
Trent vs. himself
Kelvin vs. a rainstorm
Ella vs. a steer
Trent vs. himself
the careful selection of words to communicate a message or establish a particular voice or writing style
What is diction?
devices, techniques and components that authors use in literature to create a certain effect or to relay information
What are literary elements?
A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses
Imagery
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Rhyme
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly
What is imply?
Which is an example of external conflict?
Aidan vs. Reid
Jackson vs. himself
Raegan vs. Raegan
Rylee vs. self
Aidan vs. Reid
Which of the following could be considered literary imagery?
a sound
a smell
a sight
a taste
All of the above
All of the above
the meaning one would find when looking the word up in a dictionary
What is denotation?
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
metaphor
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them
What is rhetorical device?
to make a well informed guess
What is infer?