Literary Terms
A comparison using 'like' or 'as.'
What is a simile?
The word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
What Point of View is the story told?
First Person
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
The part of the story where characters are introduced.
What is the exposition?
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
The part of speech that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Who is the main character and narrator of The Outsiders
Ponyboy
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
The part of the story where tension builds and conflicts develop.
What is the rising action?
The character who opposes the main character in a story.
What is an antagonist?
A punctuation mark used to indicate a pause between clauses.
What is a comma?
This character threw a drink at Dally
Cherry Valance
A phrase that means something different than the words imply, like 'kick the bucket.'
What is an idiom?
The turning point of a story
What is the climax?
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A group of words with a subject and verb that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
This character killed a SOC in self defense with a knife
Johnny
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is an allusion?
The part of the story where the reader learns of the aftereffects of the climax.
What is the falling action?
The term for the atmosphere or emotional condition created by the piece, within the setting.
What is mood?
The term for two independent clauses joined incorrectly with just a comma.
What is a comma splice?
Johnny and Ponyboy run away to this building after their fight with the socs
Church
The repetition of the same initial sound in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
The part of the story where loose ends are tied up and the story is brought to a close.
What is the resolution?