Who is telling the story?
The person from whose point of view events are conveyed.
What is the narrator?
The repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
What is a character?
"The boy ran like the wind!"
What is a simile?
A person, object, idea, or action that stands for something else -- usually something literal that stands for something figurative.
What is a symbol?
The vantage point, or stance from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
A narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings, or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.
What is Allegory?
The time and place in which the action of a story occurs.
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
What is a metaphor?
The writers or speakers attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
The narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronoun "I."
What is first-person point of view?
A scene or an incident that happened before the beginning of the story, or at an earlier point in the narrative.
What is a flashback?
What is the plot?
"My heart danced when he walked into the room!"
What is personification?
The way in which a piece of literature is written -- refers not to what is said, but how it is said.
What is style?
The narrator does not have full knowledge of situations or past/future events (camera view).
What is third-person limited point of view?
A recurrent image, idea, or symbol that develops or explains a theme.
What is a motif?
Words and phrases that create vivid experiences or a picture for the reader.
What is imagery?
"Beauty and ugliness"
"Forgiveness and revenge"
What is juxtaposition?
The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story
What is a mood?
The narrator is all-knowing about the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
A statement or situation containing obvious contradictions, but is nevertheless true.
What is a paradox?
The main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly, that the reader should take away from the work.
What is theme?
"Ms. B's class is going to be the death of me!"
What is a hyperbole?
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
What is diction?