An educated guess
Inference
Repetition of consonant sounds
Alliteration
Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure
Analyze
A writer of a book, article, or report
Author
The narrator is not a character in the story and reports only what can be seen and heard (journalistic)
3rd person objective
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling
Figurative language
A comparison without using like or as
Metaphor
A story that is not true or is made up.
Fiction
Piece of writing you do that tells your thoughts about a piece of literature
Literary analysis
A portion or section of text
Passage
An expression that says on thing but means something else
Idiom
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
Personification
Writing that tells about real people, places, and event
Non fiction
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Imagery
Make clear or make understand
Clarify
A comparison using like or as
Simile
A word that imitates the sound it represents
Onomatopoeias
Descriptive, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution
5 text structures
Th narrator knows ALL of the thoughts and feelings of ALL of the characters in a writing.
3rd person omniscent
The person retelling the story
Narrator
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Conjoining contradictory terms (as in ‘deafening silence”)
Oxymoron
Having to do with books or writing
Literary
The narrator ONLY knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character
3rd person limited
Dialogue or conversation
Quotation