Storyteller
A literary term that can be defined as the person telling the story
What is the narrator?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
Typically refers to saying one thing and meaning the opposite, often to shock audiences and emphasize the importance of the truth.
What is irony?
Comprising an author’s diction, syntax, tone, characters, and other narrative techniques
What is style?
A character in a text who the protagonist opposes.
What is an antagonist?
The view from which a story is being told
What is point of view?
Image that represents an object, person or situation that has a different meaning than its literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
An apparent contradiction that, upon further unraveling, may contain truth, used for effect on the reader.
What is a paradox?
Word choice, or the specific language an author, narrator, or speaker uses to describe events and interact with other characters.
What is diction?
The primary character in a text, often positioned as “good” or the character with whom readers are expected to identify
Who is the protagonist?
POV: a character in the story tells the story
What is first person point of view?
The ways individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text.
What is characterization?
Ideas, people, images, ideas, or object placed next to one another to highlight their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
The reason or intent behind why an author writes a particular piece of text, which could be to inform, persuade, entertain, explain, describe, or achieve another specific goal depending on the content and context.
What is author's purpose?
A protagonist of a story who embodies none of the qualities typically assigned to traditional heroes and heroines.
What is an anti-hero?
POV: an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint
What is third person point of view?
An expression designed to call something popular to mind without mentioning it specifically
What is allusion?
a universal symbol or pattern that recurs in myths, stories, and other forms of literature across different cultures and time periods.
What is an archetype?
The arrangement of words in a sentence, impacting the rhythm and emphasis.
What is syntax?
____________ Characterization: author shows how character speaks, thinks, acts, or how other characters react to him.
What is indirect characterization?
POV: a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing
What is omniscient point of view?
style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words of a speaker or a writer
What is diction?
The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
What is parallel structure?
In literature refers to the presence of unclear, equivocal, or uncertain meanings within a text.
_____ or ______ : A character can either not change or become complex throughout the novel.