Figurative language
“Still we live meanly like ants.”
Simile
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
Alliteration
(repetition of sounds at the beginning of a group words)
A conversation or verbal interaction between two or more characters.
Dialogue
“The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.”
Imagery
Background information about setting, characters, and conflict.
Exposition
Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker
Person v. person
This type of figurative language is when a person, place or thing that has significance or meaning beyond its surface.
Symbol
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
End rhyme
(an exact rhyme at the end of two lines of poetry)
The particular time and place in which the events occur.
Setting
Writers develop their characters through what methods or means?
Characterization
1. Appearance; 2. Speech; 3. Thoughts and feelings; 4. Actions; 5. Reactions of other characters
Suspense builds because complications arise that make the conflict more difficult for the main character to resolve.
Rising action
Dracula v. Van Helsing
Person v. person/supernatural
“All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players.”
Metaphor
I drove myself to the lake
and dove into the water.
Internal rhyme
(rhyme within a line of poetry)
The sequence of events in a story.
Plot
A repeated narrative element that supports the theme of a story.
Motif
Turning point in the action when the reader’s interest reaches its highest point.
Climax
Harrry Potter v. his own sense of self worth
Person v. themselves
"When flowers gaze at you, they're not the only ones who cry."
Personification
"A duck that clucked drove a truck into an aqueduct."
Consonance
(repetition of consonant sounds)
The character or voice that relates the events of the story to the reader.
Narrator
The attitude a writer has toward their subject.
Tone
Conflict ends and loose ends are tied up.
Falling action
Oedipus v. marrying his own mother and killing his own father
Person vs. Fate
"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars.
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night."
Hyperbole
"I might like to take a flight to an island in the sky."
Assonance
(repetition of vowel sounds)
A struggle between opposing forces.
Conflict
The feeling, or atmosphere, that a writer creates for the reader.
Mood
What happens to the characters after the conflict is resolved.
Resolution/denouement
Odysseus v. Poseidon
Person v. God
"It’s like Ali in the jungle, It’s like Nelson in jail; It’s like Keller in the darkness."
Simile + Allusion
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
Slant rhyme/near rhyme/half rhyme/almost rhyme
(two words located at the end of a line of poetry themselves end in similar—but not identical—consonant sounds.)
The central thesis or point of the story. A lesson, moral, or underlying meaning of a literary work
Theme
The three types of literary irony are________
Dramatic, situational, verbal
What are the common types of conflict that drive a plot?
Person v. person, person v. themselves, person v. society, person v. nature, person v. technology
Winston Smith V. Big Brother
Person v. society/technology