Literary Terms-A
The opponent or enemy of the main character, or protagonist.
What is antagonist?
An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is idiom?
The hidden subject/message of the story that author wants you to think about
Theme
Language that portrays sensory experiences, or experiences of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Authors use _________ to describe actions, characters, objects, and ideas, and to heighten the emotional effect of their writing.
What is imagery?
Expresses a complete thought with correct punctuation
A sentence
The sequence of events in a story. This includes the opening event, the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution.
The environment in which a story takes place, including time period, the location, and the physical characteristics of the surroundings.
What is setting?
The main or central character of a work of literature.
What is protagonist?
When two unlike things are compared- using like or as- in order to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things. For example, "Randy's voice is like melted chocolate."
What is simile?
I am sleepy I want to sleep I want to get up early tomorrow
What type of phrase is this
Run on
A struggle between opposing forces. It may be external or internal.
What is conflict?
The means through which an author reveals a character's personality.
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
The story is made up, not true- The genre is?
Fiction
The conversation between characters in a work of literature.
What is dialogue?
The cow is sad.
What type of sentence is this.
Declarative
The author uses actions, dialogues and feelings, its called
Characterization
is the perspective from which the author presents the story
What is Point of View?
When and where the story takes place
Setting
is making a guess about the story based
on evidence
What is an inference?
Although I stayed up all night.
What type of phrase is this
Fragment
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
When the narrator uses "you" in the story, it is _ POV
Second person POV
When the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth (for example calling a very tall person "Tiny").
What is irony?
is a lesson for children about safety or proper behavior… a sentence.
What is a moral?
The practice of using symbols in literature.
What is symbolism?
Jerry, the tiny grey mouse and Tom, the cat, are best friends.
What is the complete subject.
Jerry, the tiny grey mouse and Tom, the cat,