Literary Terms
taken from a text
What is excerpted?
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
Writing that must be interpreted through critical thinking and inference and cannot be taken literally
Figurative Language
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Rhythm
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 idea?
all-knowing
What is omniscient?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Allusion
the color red in Of Mice and Men
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?
A three-lined Japanese verse
Haiku
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?
to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
What is convey?
The narrator's guilt in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What is internal conflict?
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 elements?
A direct comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly
What is imply?
Cassie Logan stands up for herself against Mr. Jim Lee Barnett.
What is external conflict?
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?
Means "untie the knot" and refers to resolving all conflicts
What is denouement?
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Lacking change or development in a story
What are flat characters?
to make a well informed guess
What is infer?