Literary terms 1
A long and narrative poem.
Epic poem
Mythology
The introduction of the characters and the setting.
Exposition
What are the three main parts of a story.
Setting, characters, and plot
The time and place a story takes place in.
Setting
An event that occurs causing another even to occur and the event that occurs as a result of the first event.
Cause and Effect
The difference between Mood and Tone
Tone: How the author feels.
Mood: How the reader feels.
The events that lead to the climax.
Rising action
The events that lead to the resolution.
Falling action
Using information from the text to come to a conclusion about what the author wants you to figure about about the character.
Inference.
The two types of characterization.
Indirect and Direct
An interruption in a story to recap events that happened in the past before the current time in the book.
Flashback
These can be part of the rising action and make things harder for the main character(s).
Complications
The ending of the story (things are resolved).
Resolution
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.
Soliloquy
Hints about what is going to happen farther in the book.
A play on words.
Pun
The journey, problem, or crime is introduced.
Inciting force
Tellus dying is an example of what part of a plot map?
Falling action
What happened in a story overall.
Summary
Something that is ironic is.
The opposite of what is going to happen.
What are denotation and connotation?
Denotation: The dictionary definition of a word.
Connotation: Thoughts, feelings, or images associated with a word.
The main point in the story with the most excitement and action.
Climax
The boys finding out that the news of the desecration of the temple was delivered to the censor's office before the crime happened is an example of what part of the plot map?
Rising action.
"He was in hot water"
Literal and figurative meanings for this phrase.
Literal: He was in hot water
Figurative: He was in trouble.