Terms that start with A
A device commonly used in poetry and occasionally in prose: the repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase.
What is Alliteration
A person, animal or thing in a story, play or other literary work.
What is a Character?
An action or event that makes something else happen. The action or events and its consequences.
What is Cause and Effect?
An alphabetical list of sources used or recommended in a research paper or report.
What is a Bibliography?
Poems are also known as.
What is Poetry?
A comparison that explains one subject by pointing out its similarities to another subject.
What is an Analogy
The characteristics (for example, quality of mind, distinguishing features and character) of the people or things we read about.
What are Character Traits?
What is a Chart?
Things arranged in order according to time sequence.
What is Chronological Order?
A story written for or presented as a dramatic performance; a drama.
What is a play?
A way of thinking that involves taking apart, examining and explaining a subject or idea.
What is an analysis
The spoken conversation of the characters or actual persons we read about as it is presented in a novel, story, poem, play or essay.
What is Dialog?
The high point of interest or suspense in a literary work, the turning point. It would be the top of the roller coaster.
What is the Climax?
Things arranged in order according to time sequence but also called sequential order?
What is Chronological Sequence?
The time and place of action in a story. (Where is takes place?)
What is the Setting?
When you examine critically the parts or elements of something or you find out the essential features of something.
What is to Analyze?
An account of a persons life that we are reading about which is written or told by another person.
What is a Biography?
The problem that must be solved or met to get to the end of the story.
What is the Conflict?
The process of making judgements about the quality or value of something.
What is Evaluation?
A central idea, concern or purpose of a literary work.
What is the Theme?
A writing style that is an account of the writers own life or part of it?
What is Autobiography.
When we discuss the things that we read about and we talk about what is alike and what is different.
What is Compare/Contrast?
The information from the immediate textual setting that helps identify a word or word group.
What is a Context Clue?
A genre or class of literature that is written in dialogue form with stage directions.
What is a Drama?
A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied by an analogy but is not stated. (We didn't use like or as.)
What is a Metaphor?