Vocabulary
What is Connotation
Connotation is a word not found in the dictionary
What reading skill has two layers that are understood without being directly stated or is directly stated.
implicit and explicit
What are the 5 plot elements
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
This is a narrative text structure use to provide information about events that occurred in the past.
flashback
to provide support for the main plot
What is a claim
a single sentence that summarizes the central idea of your essay
What is analyzed in literature that is used to see both sides of the story
perspective
what literary device helps organize essay ideas
literary analysis
“I don’t rejoice in insects at all,” Alice explained, “because I’m rather afraid of them—at least the large kinds. But I can tell you the names of some of them.”
what type of connotation was used
positive connotation
What do you use a literary analysis for
to explains and interprets the meaning of a literary text
what is verbal irony
What is said is the opposite of what is meant.
This literary device uses humor and irony to ridicule
satire
what is the process of looking back and going over writing and fixing errors
revising and editing
"Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them"
what type of figurative language is seen here
Anaphora
What does pacing unfold in literary text
actions and events
What is personification
assigning human characteristics or qualities to non-human things
What is ambiguity in literary text
Ambiguity means having unclear or uncertain meaning, or having multiple interpretations.
In fiction, exposition is what introduces the....(one word)
plot
Two types of characterization
direct and indirect
What device occurs among the main plot
subplot
What is figurative language
the use of words to express meanings different from their literal definitions in order to enhance power, persuasiveness, or beauty
what is the literature that refers to a hypothetical or imaginary society marked by oppression, rebellion, revolution, overpopulation, and/or war.
Dystopian Literature
What is the literary device used to help the reader understand a point from a certain character
point of view
"While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen."
what is the meaning of reverently
For the miraculous birth
What is literary device helps the overall emotion in a literature text
tone