Litty
The character who works against the main character and is usually the source of the conflict.
Antagonist
The part of the story where setting, characters, and background information is established.
Exposition
A category of literature or film.
Genre
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
Mood
She sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
From the Greek word for ladder, it is the moment in a story when the conflict or crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is usualy the turning point in the story's action.
Climax
The strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary regardless of its emotional connotation.
Denotation
Exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
The part of the story where conflict starts and escalates. These parts are necessary to bring about the climax.
Rising Action
This statement explains what you will be talking about for the entirety of your paper. It should always be included in any formally written paper.
Thesis Statement
A word formed from the first letters in a phrase. For example, RADAR is word that was formed from the phrase “Radio Detection and Ranging.
Acronym
The “extra” meaning a word carries beyond its strict dictionary meaning. For example, “home” means the same as “house” but “home” also carries the meaning that certain qualities and personal possessions are also implied.
Connotation
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
Falling Action
Dramatic Irony
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The way an author conveys his/her attitude about particular characters and subject matter. In poetry, it is called “voice.” It is the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s].
Tone
A character that highlights the differences in another character (think back to our Macbeth unit).
Foil
Bringing attention to an issue in a sarcastic way, can involve irony.
Satire
Mental pictures that a reader experiences with a passage of literature.
Imagery
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. …Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
Personification
A fireman's house catching on fire would be an example of this...
Situational Irony
A reference to something famous to make a point. For example, if your teacher calls your class a horde of Mongols, students would have no idea if they were being praised or reprimanded unless they know what the Mongol horde was.
Allusion
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: In many medieval literature pieces, a raven, a wolf, eagle or vulture appear and because these creatures scavenge bodies of fallen warriors, they allow the reader to predict a battle is about to begin.
Foreshadowing
Write an example of a simile.
(must include like or as)
Words or phrases used by a particular group of professionals or other defined group, such as urban teenagers would use these phrases or words not commonly used by rural teenagers.
Jargon
An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern that may be subdivisions of a poem.
Stanza