Definitions
Imagery
Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
At what point in the plot is the action/tension at its highest point?
The climax.
When a concrete thing is used to represent a larger (abstract) concept or idea.
Symbolism
Name the device: "He could hear the buttons of his jacket scraping steadily along the rough bricks and feel them catch momentarily, tugging a little, at each mortared crack."
Imagery
The plot stage in which conflict is introduced and tension begins to rise is called...
The rising action
Mood
The atmosphere created in the text; the feeling of the text
Define DIRECT characterization
When the author directly/exactly what the character is like.
A universal idea/messages that an author communicates throughout a text.
Theme
Name the device: "The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window."
Simile
Define ANTAGONIST
The character/force that opposes the protagonist and creates conflict for them.
Personification
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
The leading character/hero of a text is referred to as the...
Protagonist
A comparison of two unlike things that DOES NOT use the words "like" or "as"
Metaphor
Name the device: "I pulled the go-cart through the saw-tooth fern, down into the green dimness where the palmetto fronds whispered by the stream."
Personification
Brother telling us that he only cared about helping Doodle because of his own pride is an example of what kind of characterization?
Direct
Foreshadowing
When the author gives hints or clues at events that will happen later in the text.
A DYNAMIC character is one that...
Changes over the course of the text as a result of the events of the plot.
The type of character that possesses a number of character traits, as opposed to just one.
Name the device: "Rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light that poured out."
Metaphor
Which of the following best describes the theme of "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket"?
A) Danger
B) The importance of work/life balance
C) Don't try so hard at your job
D) Dangers of neglecting your wife
B) The importance of work/life balance
Irony
When the outcome of a situation is opposite to what you'd expect to happen.
When what is said is the opposite of the literal meaning.
The narrator is "all knowing"--they know everything about all of the characters in the story (uses pronouns like he, she, they, etc...)
The author's attitude, which is revealed through word choice.
Tone
Name the device:
“Oh, yes,” [General Zaroff] said, casually, as if in answer to a question, “I have electricity. We try to be civilized here.”
Irony
In the Scarlet Ibis, when we learn that Doodle is born with many complications and cannot do what other kids his age can do, this is what stage of the plot?
Exposition.