Literary Terms
The AUTHOR’S attitude towards the audience, the subject, or the character.
Tone
All the ways they are different
Contrast
The most exciting part of the story
Climax
Consists of words and phrases that appeal to the readers 5 senses.
Imagery
Comparison using "like" or "as"
Simile
The position the writer takes on an issue, supported by reasons and evidence.
Claim
Support
Where the setting and characters are introduced
Exposition
A subdivision of a poem- looks like a paragraph.
Stanza
Exaggeration
Hyperbole
What the author wants you to learn or know- also known as the message, moral, or lesson of the story.
Formulate
Loose ends are tied up
The way a poem's words and lines are arranged on a page.
A Poem's Structure or Form
A word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to.
Onomatopoeia
The process of drawing of a conclusion based on the available evidence plus previous knowledge and experience.
Inference
List in steps
Trace
Suspense and interest builds
Rising Action
A form of poetry with NO regular patterns of line length, rhyme or rhythm.
Free Verse
When words that start with the same sound are used close together in a phrase.
Alliteration
The “big point,” or the most important idea, that the writer is communicating to the reader.
Main/Central Idea
Describe
Main problem of the story
Conflict
The pattern of rhyme between the lines of a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not understandable from those individual words.
Idiom