Types of Figurative Language
The ability to form mental pictures of things or events
What is Imagery?
A type of writing that explains, gives information, or clarifies an idea
What is Exposition?
A work intended for performance by actors on a stage; Shakespeare
What is drama?
Someone who offers opposition; the character who comes into conflict with the protagonist in a literary work
What is an antagonist?
An open clash b/w two opposing groups
What is a conflict?
Passing reference or indirect mention; a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion,
What is allusion?
The act of providing vague advance indications
What is foreshadowing?
Prose writing that is not formed by the imagination
What is nonfiction?
The act of describing essential features
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
What is figurative language?
Difference b/w what might be expected and what happens
What is irony?
Giving an account describing a course of events
What is narration?
An extended fictional work in prose; not a book
What is a novel?
The principal character in a work of fiction
What is a protagonist?
Man vs. Self
What internal conflict?
The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
What is tone?
The subject matter of a conversation or discussion
What is theme?
The Tragedy of Macbeth is this type of literature.
What is a drama?
Where the author describes the character directly; ex. John in a good soldier
What is direct characterization?
Where the author describes the character indirectly through actions, speech, appearance, private thoughts or other characters responses.
What is indirect characterization?
When the audience understands something, the characters don’t
Something visible that represents something invisible
What is symbol?
"The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" is this type of literature. HINT: it is NOT one of our vocab words
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a myth?
The highest point of anything; the most intense or exciting moment in the story when something happens to decide the outcome of the conflict
Man vs. Man; man vs. Nature; man vs. Society; man vs. The supernatural