Literary Terms
When two unalike things are compared.
What is metaphor
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
Sayings not meant to be taken literally
Idioms
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
Your thoughts on a subject that are not facts.
Opinion
In literature, refers to the step-by-step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character
Characterization
what the text is mainly about
What is central idea/main idea?
The all-knowing narrator: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person?
What is 3rd person (omniscient)?
"Sound" words (Bam! Creak!)
What is onomatapoeia?
Exposition and Resolution part of the . . .
What is a plot diagram?
The use of words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Simile
The only pronoun that is capitalized.
What is "I"?
Tension or problem between opposing forces
What is conflict?
First sentence in a paragraph (usually)
What is the topic sentence?
a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
Hyperbole
What is exaggeration?
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
Punctuation at the end of a "general" sentence.
What is a period?
to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
What is convey?
Person vs. Nature
What is external conflict?
To prove a point you need...
What is evidence?
Idioms, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, and hyperbole are examples of . . .
What are figurative language?
A direct comparison between two unlike things NOT USING LIKE OR AS
What is a metaphor?
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
An educated guess in literature
What is inference?
Where a story/text takes place.
What is setting?
How YOU feel about a text when reading it.
What is mood?
the meaning found by looking a word up in a dictionary
What is denotation?
Person vs. Self
What is internal conflict?
5-7 sentences centered around one idea.
What is a paragraph?
Characters in a novel that change from the beginning to the end
What are dynamic characters?
to make a well informed guess
What is infer?