Literary Terms-A
The opponent or enemy of the main character, or protagonist.
What is antagonist?
An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is idiom?
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
Language that portrays sensory experiences, or experiences of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Authors use _________ to describe actions, characters, objects, and ideas, and to heighten the emotional effect of their writing.
What is imagery?
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Describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas as though they possess human qualities or emotions. For example: "The moon smiled down on her," "I felt the cold hand of death on my shoulder," "There is a battle being fought in my garden between the flower and the weeds."
What is personification?
The sequence of events in a story. This includes the opening event, the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution.
The environment in which a story takes place, including time period, the location, and the physical characteristics of the surroundings.
What is setting?
The main or central character of a work of literature.
What is protagonist?
When two unlike things are compared- using like or as- in order to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things. For example, "Randy's voice is like melted chocolate."
What is simile?
A story's main message or moral.
What is theme?
A struggle between opposing forces. It may be external or internal.
What is conflict?
The means through which an author reveals a character's personality.
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The point in the play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches its greatest intensity and is then resolved.
What is climax?
The conversation between characters in a work of literature.
What is dialogue?
Using words in some other way other than for their literal meaning to make a comparison, add emphasis, or say something in a fresh and creative way.
What is figurative language?
An object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another meaning as well. For example, in a story or play, rain could represent sadness or leaving the past behind.
What is symbol?
The author's attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience. _______ is conveyed through the author's word choices and the details that he or she includes.
What is tone?
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature. It's the atmosphere that makes you feel a certain way when you "walk into" a story. For example: creepy, calm, romantic, sad, or tense.
What is mood?
When a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken. It appeals to the sense of hearing, and writers use it to bring a story or poem to life in the reader's head.
What is onomatopoeia?
A literary device that refers to the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.
What is consonance?
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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two, unlike things.
What is metaphor?
When the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth (for example calling a very tall person "Tiny").
What is irony?
Is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.
What is a assonance?
The practice of using symbols in literature.
What is symbolism?
When two or more words in a group of words begin with the same sound. For example: Fred's frozen french fries.
What is alliteration?