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Easy Lit Elements
POETRY
HEAVY Elements
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
RANDOM DELIGHTS!
100
the people in a short story or novel
What is CHARACTERS
100
groups of lines in a poem
What is STANZA
100
characters speaking to one another
What is DIALOGUE
100
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the word "like" or "as"
What is SIMILE
100
the point of maximum interest or tension, in a plot, that usually occurs after the reader has understood the conflict
What is CLIMAX
200
the problem in a story or novel
What is CONFLICT
200
an oourrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words, such as "suite" and "heat"
What is RHYME
200
the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader, ina literary work
What is MOOD
200
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things WITHOUTusing "like" or "as"
What is METAPHOR
200
presents and EXPLAINS information and ideas
What is EXPOSITORY (ESSAYS)
300
when and/or where literary work takes place
What is SETTING
300
the voice that "talks" to the reader in a poem
What is SPEAKER
300
a form of language that is spoken in a particular geographic area or by a particular social or ethnic group
What is DIALECT
300
a figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea
What is PERSONIFICATION
300
an account of a conversation, episode, or an event that happeneded before the beginning of a story
What is FLASHBACK
400
when a character experiences a problem in his own ind
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT
400
a pattern of stressed and unstresses syllables in a line of poetry
What is RHYTHM
400
everything that happens in a literary work
What is PLOT
400
the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning, such as buzz, murmur, gargle
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
400
a special kind of CONTRAST between appearance and reality- usually one in whichreality is the opposite of what it seems
What is IRONY
500
man vs. man is an example of
What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT
500
this consists of descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
What is IMAGERY
500
the attitude the writer takes TOWARD a subject
What is TONE
500
a figure of speech in which the truth is EXAGGERATED for emphasis or or humorous effect example- I'm so hungry; I could eat a horse!
What is HYPERBOLE
500
this can be found as the last sentence in an essay's introduction -it's job is to CLEARLY express the writer's opinion about a given topic
What is THESIS STATEMENT