Literary Terms
Make an educated guess based on the evidence you have from the text.
What is Draw or make an inference?
That baby is as cute as a kitten.
What is Simile?
A scene set in time that is earlier than the main storyline.
What is Flashback?
Using the same words frequently to reinforce concepts and unify the speech
What is Repetition?
What is this ...
When should it be used?
What is Ellipses?
To show a omission or continuation of a thought
Example: "We the People of the United States...do ordain and establish this Constitution..."
How a story indicates a particular feeling or the author's feeling towards his or her subject
What is Tone?
He is a shining star.
What is Metaphor?
Being warned of something in a story that has yet to happen
What is Foreshadowing?
Three types of persuasive appeals
What is Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
What is this ;
When should it be used?
What is a Semicolon?
When joining two independent clauses without a comma and a coordinating conjunction
"I love spring; so many things begin to grow and take life."
Similar to tone, writers reflect this by how they use words to make you, the reader, feel a certain way.
What is Mood?
There's enough food here to feed a whole army!
What is Hyperbole?
What type of irony is being used in this sentence?
As he stepped outside and got soaked, Ted said, "Wow! Nice weather we are having today!"
What is Verbal irony?
A question asked to make a point rather than to invite an answer
What is a Rhetorical Question?
What is this :
When should it be used?
Colon
To announce or introduce a list
"Attention: I am going to the grocery story for: milk, bread, eggs, orange juice, and cereal."
The writer builds this in the story to keep the reader engaged.
What is Suspense/Tension?
You're acting like a Scrooge!
Thank you for being a Good Samaritan and helping me with that problem.
Chocolate is my Kryptonite.
What is Allusion?
An author's perspective or opinion in their writing
What is Point of View?
The use of similar grammatical forms or patterns to express similar ideas
What is Parallel Structure/Parallelism?
What is this -
When should it be used?
Dash
To set off material for emphasis
"He was afraid of two things - spiders and girls."
The use of dialogue and imagery to describe a character
What is Characterization?
The familiar taste of my mom's brownies made me think of my childhood.
Hearing that old song brought back so many memories.
The sunset was edged with pinks and golds.
What is Imagery?
The three type of irony
What is Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic?
Drawing a comparison that shows a similarity between two unlike things?
What is Analogy?
Does this sentence use a comma and semicolon correctly?
I knew in my heart I was being lied to because I had a gut feeling everything was about to go wrong, but I didn't say anything; I wish now that I had.
Yes. The semicolon is connecting a complex sentence to a simple sentence.