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A major character who opposes the main character in a story or play.
What is an antagonist?
The means by which an author describes the appearance and personality of a person in a story or play.
What is characterization?
The point of view of a piece of writing in which the narrator refers to himself as “I.”
What is First Person Point of View?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
The use of words that sound like/imitate what they mean.
What is onomatopoeia?
Often called "the hero" (but is not necessarily heroic) the main character of a novel, play, or story?
What is protagonist?
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.
What is alliteration?
The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.
What is climax?
A long poem narrating the adventures of a great heroic figure. (Ex. the Odyssey)
What is an epic or epic poetry?
"Mary is weird" "No, Mary has a heart of gold, she is just a late bloomer."
What is metaphor?
A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word?
What is a synonym?
A reference to something or someone, often literary.
What is an allusion?
To explain how two things are alike and dissimilar?
What is compare and contrast?
A story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters.
(Ex. The Tortoise and the Hare)
What is a fable?
A long speech by one character in a play or story.
What is monologue?
“The flames reached for the child cowering in the corner."
What is personification?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in the words
Ex: Go slow over the road.
What is assonance?
The element that moves a plot forward. This can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena.
What is a myth?
When phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure. (not repetition)
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true..."
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia..."
What is parallelism?
A literary technique in which two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities. Unlike a simile or a metaphor IT is NOT a figure of speech.
Ex ___: kitten :: dog: puppy
What is an analogy?
A feeling or idea that a word has based on context, not just its literal meaning
What is connotation?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
A literary device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past?
What is flashback?
A phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words.
ex: jumbo shrimp, bittersweet, friendly fire
What is an oxymoron?