Vocabulary Richardson
What literary term means use of details from the five senses to appeal to the reader.
Sensory Details
What literary term means the general place, historical time, or circumstances in which the story takes place.
Setting
What literary term means when the narrator is telling the story as an outsider- uses charcter pronouns as he, she, they.
Third Person
What literary term means a word having the opposite meaning of another word (ex. cool: warm).
Antonym
What literary term means able to be believed; believable.
Credible
What literary term means a text that was created by someone later who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events.
Secondary Sources
What literary term means condensing a text using the main points and themes.
Summarize
What literary term means a short statement that summarizes the main idea or point of a story.
Thesis Statement
What literary term means a person, or character, that actively opposes the protagonist (the main character). Ex: Joker in Batman.
Antagonist
What literary term means the way an author describes or shows what a character is like.
Characterization
What literary term means an explanation, solution, or ending to a story.
Resolution
What literary term means how a story is organized.
Structure
What literary term means the idea or message that is woven throughout a story- the reader may take away a lesson he/she learned from the story.
Theme
What literay term means the repetition of speech sounds in the beginning of nearby words (ex. Peter Piper’s pickled peppers).
Alliteration
What literary term means describes how a character evolves, or grows, throughout a story
Character Development
What literary term means significant or important to the matter at hand.
Relevant
What literary term means a grouping of lines of verse in a poem set off by a space in the text.
Stanza
What literary term means the way an author organizes information in a text.
Text Structure
What literary term means a contradiction between what is being said and what is meant.
Verbal Irony
What literary term means a cause is why something happened. The effect is what happened as a result.
Cause & Effect
What literary term means an original text used for informational purposes, as in research (ex. Journals, diaries, photographs, data).
Primary Source
What literary term means when the situation is very different from what is expected.
Situational Irony
What literary term means the idea that something can represent something else (ex. the color green represents nature).
Symbolism
What literary term means the author’s attitude towards the subject of the text.
Tone
What literary term means the intended target group of a message, such as young adults, teenagers, etc…
Audience