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Central message or insight into life revealed through lit. Work; work; authors big message about life
What is a Theme
Speaker or character who tells story
What is narrator
Descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for reader; often appeals to be 5 senses
What is Imagery
Portrays differences between appearance and reality opposite-twist-unexpected
What is Irony
the ___ action is the second part of the story
What is rising action
A figure of speech that compare to unlike things
What is a Metaphor
Writers choice of narrator determines story POV; directs type and amount of information revealed
What is point of view
A figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things using like or as
What is a Simile
Reference to a well known person, place, event, lit work, or work of art
What is allusion
What is the the third part of the story
What is the climax
Giving human characteristics to non-human subjects
What is personification
Event occurs that directly contradicts expectations
What is Situational irony
Something that represents itself first and then something else larger and more important.
What is a Symbol
Author presents material that occurred earlier
What is a Flashback
The ___ action is the fourth part of the story
Falling action
Contradiction between what character thinks and what reader knows to be true
What is Dramatic irony
Character in story tells story using I
What is first person
All knowing narrator tells what any character thinks and feels; God-like
What is third person omniscient
The first part in a story
What is the exposition
Indirect characterization includes __
What is others reaction, looks, actions, speaking
saying the opposite of what one means
What is Verbal irony
Sees world through one characters eyes and reveals only that characters thoughts
What is third person limited
Hint or clue of what is to come
What is Foreshadowing
The last part of a story
What is the Denouement
What type of charter is a cardboard cutout
What is a flat character