Terms 1
What is plot?
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
what is Rhyme Scheme?
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
In literature, refers to the step-by-step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character
Characterization
what the text is mainly about
What is central/main idea?
An author's reason for writing
What is author's purpose?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Allusion
The dogs in "Death in the Woods"
What is a symbol?
The use of words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Simile
to make something clear or easier to understand
What is clarify?
Tension or problem between opposing forces
What is conflict?
an essay based on facts with an arguable claim
What is an argumentative essay?
a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
What is convey?
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
What is a stanza?
extremely apologetic or remorseful
What is contrite?
The wicked stepmother in fairytales
What is Motif?
giving credit to a source within the text of an essay
What is in-text citation?
devices, techniques and components that authors use in literature to create a certain effect or to relay information
What are literary devices?
A direct comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
Of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else
What is pivotal?
(adj.) never before known or seen, without having happened earlier
What is unprecedented?
to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly
What is imply?
The Joker from the Batman franchise.
What is antagonist?
Descriptive writing that is rich in details connected to the five senses
What is imagery?
the meaning found by looking a word up in a dictionary
What is denotation?
"Time is money"
What is analogy?
Writing that must be interpreted through critical thinking and inference and cannot be taken literally
what is figurative language?
"Back in my day I had to walk through snow just to get to school"
What is an anecdote?
to make a well informed guess
What is infer?