Poe
Writing Terms
Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
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Mood
What is the feeling that the reader has after reading a work of literature
100
A Topic Sentence
What is a sentence that gives a subject and opinion and goes at the beginning of a paragraph.
100
Dialogue
What is a back and forth between two or more characters.
100
Folk Literature/ Oral Tradition
What is stories passed down through speech over the generations
100
The Day of Our Final
Answers will vary
200
Imagery
What is language that brings out the five senses.
200
Concrete Detail
What is a quote or detail that can be verified or proven.
200
Exposition
What is introducing character, setting, situation
200
Personification
What is giving non human things human characteristics
200
Winter Faire
Friday 5th period
300
The gothic genre
Contains castles, horror, romance
300
Commentary
What is your opinion or interpretation. Goes after the quote or concrete detail.
300
Dramatic Irony
What is when one character knows something another does not.
300
Flashback
What is an example from the Usher film going back in time
300
Suspense
What is Poe's stories, specific events from Usher, etc..
400
Connotation
What is everything that a word makes you think of. NOT denotation or the dictionary definition of a word.
400
Transition
What is a word or phrase like "In conclusion," "Also," "In addition," that connect thoughts together.
400
Symbol
What is when an object represents a bigger idea.
400
Poetry
What is Annabel Lee and Haunted Palace
400
Characterization
What is how John Proctor changes over the course of the story
500
Metaphor
What is NOT using like or as to compare two items.
500
Thesis
What is a main idea that gives a subject and opinion. Goes at the end of the first paragraph of an essay.
500
Protagonist
What is the narrator in Usher, John Proctor
500
Figurative Language
What is language that is NOT literal.
500
Allusion
What is referring to another work of literature
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