Literary Devices
When you write on a test or make notes in the passages by underlining or making marks in the margins and spaces. Creating a personal reference for grabbing the quotes you will use to write your responses.
Annotating
An imaginary person in a work of fiction.
Character
State the argument. Explain what it is about. Clearly make your claim.
Introduction (Part 2: Argument)
The topic of a literary work. For example: Love, Friendship, Trust, Betrayal, Victory, Injustice, Loss, Survival.
Subject (Part 3: Text Analysis)
The main thing that a work is about, think one word.
Subject
The opponent of the main character, or protagonist
Antagonist
The movement in a story when the action reaches the greatest conflict.
Climax
Prove (a statement or claim) to be wrong or false; disprove.
Refute (Part 2: Argument)
A tool that the author uses in order to craft a story. Some examples include: Simile, Metaphor, Conflict, Personification, Characterization, Hyperbole.
Literary Device or Technique (Part 3: Text Analysis)
The use of an object or character to represent a greater ideal.
Symbolism
Character trait's learned by making inferences by observing things like character actions.
Indirect Characterization
Description of one thing in terms of something else. Simile and Metaphor are examples.
Figurative Language
State one reason that supports your claim. Use a quote from the texts to support this reason. Provide proper citation for the quote. (Text #, Line 17-20)
Supporting Paragraph 1( Part 2 Argument)
Explaining how a literary device supports the central idea of a story by quoting from the text and explaining how the device strengthens or develops the message of the Central Idea.
Central Idea Support (Part 3: Text Analysis)
The perspective from which a story is told. E.G. First person, Third Person
Point of View
The action that occurs after the climax and before the resolution.
Falling Action
The use of language that appeals to all the senses.
Imagery
State one reason that goes against your claim. Use a quote from the texts to support this reason. Provide proper citation for the quote. (Text 3, Line#). Refute the counter claim with a reason. Use a quote from the texts to support the refutation. Provide proper citation for the quote.
Counter-Claim (Part 2: Argument)
A conversation between two or more characters.
Dialogue
The placement of story elements in a narrative order.
Sequencing
The use of clues to give readers a hint of events to come.
Foreshadowing
The Voice or implied speaker who tells the story.
Narrator
Description of a character's looks or personality by the narrator.
Direct Characterization
A character with traits that are opposite to those of the main character.
Foil
The use of words that mimic the sounds they represent.
Onomatopoeia
The feeling the author creates for the readers, especially how a scene makes the reader feel.
Mood
The ordered structure of events in a story.
Plot
The act of proving a statement or theory to be wrong or false.
Refutation (Part 2: Argument)
The message that the author is trying to convey about a subject. It is a statement that can be made, a lesson learned.
Central Idea (Part 3: Text Analysis)
An outcome to what was or might have been expected. Surprise twist.
Irony
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, non living things.....
Personification
Events in a plot that occur after the exposition but before the climax.
Rising Action
State a second reason that supports your claim. Use a quote from the texts to support this reason. Provide proper citation for the quote. (Text#,Line 17-20)
Supporting Paragraph 2 (Part 2 Supporting Argument)
A way of organizing your writing into a 5 square graphic organizer that contains the sections of the argumentative essay.
5 Square Method
An early event in a story, going back in the order or sequence for a narrative.
Flashback
The part of the plot where the main dramatic conflict is worked out.
Resolution
Creating a sense of anticipation for the next thing that's going to happen.
Suspense
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as.
Metaphor
A figure of speech made up of seemingly contradictory parts.
Oxymoron
The struggle between two things in a story.
Conflict
A figure of speech that compares two things using like or as.
Simile
The main character.
Protagonist
The closing of the essay. Restate your claim and provide a summary of your points of support. Close by making a personal appeal to the reader in regards to agreeing with you.
Conclusion (Part 2 Argumentative Essay)
The time and place in which the main story events occur.
Setting
A distinguishing characteristic or quality of a character.
Character Trait