Orientation
The general perspective from which the story is told.
What is Point of View?
A form of autobiographical writing, keeping subjects actions and day-to-day activities.
What are Diaries?
Step-by-step or scene-by-scene telling of a story in chronological order.
What is Narrative Fiction?
Literature that comments on society or politics.
What is Social Commentary?
The repeated part in a song.
What is Refrain?
Struggle between two opposing forces.
What is Conflict (internal and external)?
Heard.
What is Aural?
All-seeing, all-knowing (can be inside every character’s mind).
What is Omniscient Point of View?
Similar to a diary but is more about reflection than day-to-day activities.
What are Journals?
Shows the relationship between supporting details in paragraphs, essays, and chapters.
What is Pattern of Organization?
Reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood.
What is Philosophical Argument?
The patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound.
What is Rhythm?
Time and place of a story.
What is Setting?
Induces amusement.
What is Humor?
The perspective of a singular character but not as the character themself.
What is Limited Third-Person Point of View?
A story that revolves around accounts of a historical event.
What is Historical Narrative?
The way in which a writer writes.
What is Style?
Narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a hidden meaning with moral or political significance.
What is Allegory?
The correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed to echo one another.
What is Rhyme?
The opposite of what is expected.
What is Irony?
Exaggerated statements.
What is Hyperbole?
Narration style that depicts thoughts and feelings as they come through the character’s mind.
What is Stream of Consciousness?
Stories about enslaved persons (either in bondage, on the way to freedom, and/or becoming free).
What is Captivity Narrative?
The author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is Tone?
Nineteenth Century movement that embraces determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.
What is Naturalism?
The repetition of a word, phrase, or sound to create effect.
What is Repetition?
When the audience knows something that the character(s) do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Allusions to events or people in the Bible
What are Biblical Allusions?
Witness accounts of events.
What are Firsthand Accounts?
A story about one’s whole life, written by that person.
What is Autobiography?
Having bias.
What is Subjectivity?
Songs that were created and sung by enslaved people (contain many biblical allusions).
What are Spirituals?
Uses the effects of meter, rhyme and form, especially the fixed forms.
What is Formal Verse?
Sarcasm.
What is Verbal Irony?
Having prejudice or favoritism toward.
What is Biased?
Events told by word of mouth but were not personally witnessed.
What are Secondhand Accounts?
A specific period of time in one’s life, written by that person.
What is Memoir?
No bias.
What is Objectivity?
A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is Dialect?
A sonnet form associated with the poet Petrarch, having an octave rhyming a b b a a b b a and a sestet rhyming either c d e c d e or c d c d c d Also called: Italian sonnet.
What is Petrarchan Sonnet?
When incongruity between expectations and reality.
What is Situational Irony?
A device used to break up the seriousness or monotony of a story.
What is Comic Relief?
The purpose for writing: to inform, to entertain, or to explain.
What is Writer’s Purpose?
Stories about exploration.
What is Exploration Narrative?
Word choice.
What is Diction?
Explain the meaning of.
What is Interpret?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The message or moral from the story.
What is Theme?
Characterized by truthful and relatable subject matter, everyday characters and situations, and a focus on the present day. Realist works often include descriptions of everyday activity along with concerns about the impact of war, politics, and nature.
What is Realism?