Literary Terms-A
The opponent or enemy of the main character, or protagonist.
What is antagonist?
The author's attitude which can be inferred from word choice.
What is tone?
Name a technique an author might implore to foreshadow a later event.
What is (a dream, a warning, connotation, allusion, joking about something happening, elements that affect the mood)?
Language that portrays sensory experiences, or experiences of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch is called...
What is sensory details?
She smiles like a Cheshire cat.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
The sequence of events in a story. This includes the opening event, the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution. Basically, it's "what happens."
What is the plot?
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?
The author may force you to make inferences based on an overheard conversation between characters. In literature we call this conversation between 2 or more characters...
What is dialogue?
I wish I could just click my heels and go home.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
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.
The point in the play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches its greatest intensity and is then resolved.
What is climax?
The story is told through someone's perception, whether it's a narrated by a character in the story or someone outside of the story.
What is point of view?
My math teacher is he who must not be named.
Who is Voldemort from the Harry Potter series?
The surrounding information
What is context?
A repeated object, idea, or symbol that appears at the beginning, middle and end and helps to develop the theme.
What is motif?
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature. It's the atmosphere that makes you feel a certain way when you "walk into" a story. For example: creepy, calm, romantic, sad, or tense.
What is mood?
For any story length,_________are the building blocks of the story. The word "scene" is a theater term. It describes action that occurs in a single place or setting.
What are scenes?
She felt like she had a golden ticket.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
When something happens that is the reverse of what you expected.
What is situational irony?
When the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth (for example calling a very tall person "Tiny").
What is verbal irony?
Language that is very old and no longer useful, popular, accepted. It is considered old-fashioned or obsolete.
What is a antiquated language?
"Snap, crackle, pop" are examples of
What are onomatopoeias?
The win was surely due to the team's Herculean effort.
What is the strength of Hercules?