Point of View
The narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
Definition: Literary genre, especially short stories, and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
Compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a "simile"?
What the character is like on the inside. Determined by their actions, thoughts, words, and feelings.
What is characterization (or character traits)?
Hints or clues about what may happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The person that tells the story.
What is the narrator?
An account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
An exaggeration that can’t possibly be true.
What is hyperbole?
The attitude the author takes with a piece of writing (Writer-centered)
What is tone?
Interrupting the plot to recreate an incident from an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
What is third person omniscient?
Definition: Literary genre typically deals with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster-than-light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
What is science fiction?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
What is irony?
The moral or lesson of the story. What the characters and readers learn about life from reading.
What is the theme?
Anxiety the reader feels about what may happen later in the story.
What is suspense?
The narrator tells the story to another character using the word 'you.' The
What is second person?
A type of fiction in which a detective, or other professional, solves a crime or series of crimes.
What is mystery?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What is alliteration?
What the character is like on the inside determined by their actions, thoughts, words, and feelings.
What are character traits?
An ending to a section or chapter that leaves the reader in suspense.
What is a cliffhanger?
The narrator tells the thoughts and feelings himself/herself.
What is first person?
A traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being, hero, or event, especially one that is concerned with "gods" that explains some phenomenon of nature.
What is mythology?
A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event.
What is an allusion?
The emotions the reader feels when reading a piece of writing.
What is mood?
The part of the reading process that involves figuring the meaning of a word based upon what you already know plus what you just read.
What is inferencing?