Who is telling the story?
The literary term that can be defined as the person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
A story passed down from generation to generation orally, not written, and believed to have a historical basis.
L-E-G-E-N-D
This literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a character?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of this literary term.
What is a simile?
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as this literary term. Example: a white dove represents peace, therefore the dove is the __________ of peace
What is a symbol?
The narrative perspective from which events in a story are told.
What is point of view?
Central character, sometimes a hero.
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The time and place of the action in a literary work.
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of this literary term.
What is a metaphor?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?
When a character in the story tells the story, it is this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
A question to which no answer is expected because the answer is obvious.
R-H-E-T-R-O-R-I-C-A-L
This literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work.
What is the plot?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc.
What is style?
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, it is this type of point of view.
What is third person point of view?
A 14-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter and with a traditional rhyme scheme. (Hint: Shakespeare wrote some.)
S-O-N-N-E-T
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses.
What is sensory imagery?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant.
What is irony?
The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates in a reader.
What is mood?
When something happens in the story that hints that about what will happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
A short poem about an essence of things linked to Nature; traditionally Japanese poems of 3 lines.
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The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work.
What is theme?
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom."
What is a hyperbole?
To restate something in one's own words: to re-phrase; not analysis or interpretation
What is a paraphrase?