Literary Terms
The repetition of initial sounds
alliteration
langauge used to appeal to the five senses
imagery
A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions
conflict
A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word
What is antonym?
When the author uses quantitative data (ex: graph, percentage) to show how many people think something is true.
Numbers, Data, and Statistics
An organizational device that hints of something that will happen in the future
foreshadowing
an exaggeration or overstatement
hyperbole
The message or lesson from a work
theme
A written account of another person's life
What is biography?
An attempt to persuade a reader without using evidence or reason. The point is restated in different words more than once (it is true because the person believes it is true).
Circular Argument
The perspective in which the a narrator tells a story and knows all
third-person omniscient
The emotions a work evokes in the reader
mood
The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is at its most intense
climax
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning
What is connotation?
Using an expert or celebrity to sell a product
Testimony
An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event
allusion
The attitude of the author
tone
the time and place of a story
setting (exposition)
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
Using a distraction to take the focus off of the real issue.
Red Herring
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness
satire
The comparison of two unlike things in which no words (like/as) of comparison are used
metaphor
The author's intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to do or not do something
author's purpose
Words and phrases in a sentence, paragraph, and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
What are context clues?
This is an example of what type of propaganda? “All people who smoke will get lung cancer."
Sweeping Generalization