Literary Terms
Something that you can learn from a story about life. It should not be specifically tied to a text that it uses characters and plot points.
What is moral or theme?
Is the use of words to imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
A technique for providing clues about events that may happen later in the story
What is a foreshadowing?
The part of the plot the introduces the characters, setting, and atmosphere.
What is the introduction or exposition?
This is a sentence at the end of your introduction paragraph that outlines your whole paper. It contains your claim and subpoints that will be discussed throughout.
What is a thesis?
If Mr. Springfield hands you a piece of paper that is hole punched, it should go here.
What is a binder or folder?
A technique for presenting something that happened earlier that helps explain somethig about the current situation
What is a flashback?
The most intense part of the story where suspense is heightened.
What is the climax?
The actual words that characters speak ; authors can use this skillfully in stories to portray character and to dramatize conflict
What is dialogue?
Statements that can be proven true and statements that express beliefs or attitudes
What is fact AND opinion?
When the author builds up anticipation and abruptly stops without giving the reader or viewer closure.
What is a cliffhanger?
The problem in the story: a struggle between characters, or between a characters and some inner or outer force.
What is the conflict?
A seventeen-syllable poem set out in three lines in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, often captures a moment in nature
An object or person that stands for something else and usually helps explain the theme of the story.
What is the symbol?
An event that leads the reader the think one thing will happen, but the opposite does. It is meant to be deceiving.
What is a red herring?
The events after the climax, the problem is being worked out and the action is winding down.
What is the falling action?
The overall feeling the audience has from a work of literature
What is mood?
This is how the story is told. The narrator can tell us about what the character is thinking and what is happening in the story.
What is point of view?
A contrast between expectation and reality. Can be something that is comical.
Hint: There's three different types (verbal, situational, and dramatic)
What is irony?
This form of writing contains plot elements, conflict, and character. It is a story.
What is a narrative?