Literary Terms
When two unalike things are compared.
What is metaphor
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in a word
Alliteration
Ekphrastic Poem
The feeling created by a literary work
mood
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Rhythm
what the text is mainly about
What is central idea or theme?
To prove a point about your claim you need...
Evidence AND reasoning
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
rhyme
Something concrete that stands in for a larger abstract idea (like the origami animals in "The Paper Menagerie"
What is a symbol?
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Simile
Tension or problem between opposing forces
What is conflict?
Descriptive writing that is rich in details connected to the five senses
What is imagery or sensory details?
a feeling or idea or image that a word evokes, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
A three-lined Japanese verse
Haiku
In the word forest, which vowel sound is stressed?
The O
A formal division of lines in a poem (like paragraphs in a poem)
What is a stanza?
The hero or main character in a story.
What is the protagonist
The name for the narrator of a poem.
Speaker
When there's a repetition in the internal vowel sounds in words
What is assonance
Writing that must be interpreted through critical thinking and inference and cannot be taken literally (like metaphors and similes)
Figurative Langague
When two contrasting elements are used together to highlight their differences
Juxtaposition
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
An extreme exaggeration. Ex: She took forever to tie her shoes
What is hyperbole
An all-knowing 3rd person narrator
What is omniscient narrator
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Allusion
The word for a story's "falling action" that refers to resolving all conflicts before the conclusion (in a plot arc)
What is denouement?
The use of words that imitate sounds (like oink or bang)
Onomatopoeia
When there's a specific pattern to the number of stressed and unstressed symbols in a poem and all the lines have it (an example is iambic pentameter).
What is meter