Literary Terms
When two unlike things are compared
What is metaphor
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
Sayings not meant to be taken literally
What are idioms?
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
when an author uses an object, person, color, or situation to mean more than its literal sense
symbolism
The overarching message or moral that the author is trying to convey.
What is the theme?
The all-knowing narrator: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person?
What is 3rd person (omniscient)?
"Sound" words (Bam! Creak!)
What is onomatapoeia?
A character that goes through a change
What is a dynamic character?
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Simile
Tension or problem between opposing forces
What is conflict?
A type of literature categorized by certain characteristics.
What is genre?
a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
a literary device where a writer gives an advance hint, clue, or warning about an event that will happen later in a story.
foreshadowing
Type of conflict: Person vs. Nature
What is external conflict?
A repeated object, word, place that occurs enough in the text it comes to represent a significant concept to a character
What is a motif?
A character that doesn't change at all
What is a static character?
An expression that normally signifies the opposite of its meaning, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
Where a story/text takes place
What is setting?
3 types of irony
What is situational, verbal, and dramatic?
a brief, indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of literature, or art
What is allusion?
Type of Conflict: Person vs. Self
What is internal conflict?
The words an author uses to develop their story/argument.
What is diction?
In literature, refers to the step-by-step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character
What is characterization?