What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
What is the term used to describe a group of lines arranged together in poetry?
Stanza
What do you call the main character?
Protagonist
What is it called when an author writes words or phrases multiple times?
Repetition
The problem of the story is called...
conflict
Also, In addition, However, Then are examples of _______ words
Transition words
Which type of details appeal to the five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—to create a vivid image for the reader?
Imagery
When an object represents something deeper, it is called ________.
Symbolism
What word is used to describe how the author or poet's words make the reader feel.
Mood
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
What term means a scene or event that happened before the beginning of a story. It can be a memory, a dream, or a simple retelling of past events by one of the characters.
Flashback
What is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning?
connotation
When the text gives hints at what might occur in the future.
Foreshadowing
What is the voice or persona through which a poem is expressed?
Speaker
In poetry a reference to a famous person, place, or thing is called a _____________?
Allusion
Use context clues
What terms refers to a word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to?
Onomatopoeia
When two characters have a conversation it is called?
Dialogue
What does it mean to "cite evidence"?
Use a quote / Use direct words from the text.
"The trees stood like silent guards." What literary device is being used?
What is at the top? The climax or the resolution?
Climax
What the text is mostly about. It's the big idea or most important thing the author wants you to remember.
Central Idea
What kind of text structure is used when an article compares two ideas?
Compare and Contrast
What is an author's attitude called?
Tone
What type of figurative language is the following,
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?
"The wind whispered through the trees."
Personification
What term refers to words that mimic the sounds they describe.
"HISS" "BOOM" "POW"
Onomatopoeia
What terms means the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words in poetry?
Alliteration
What term is used to show a contrast between expectation and reality?
Irony