Tell me a story
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
Something concrete that stands in for a larger abstract idea in a story
What is a symbol?
The feeling created by a literary work
mood
To prove a point about your claim you need...
Evidence AND reasoning
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Rhythm
The name for the narrator of a poem.
Speaker
The hero or main character in a story.
What is the protagonist
When two unalike things are compared.
What is metaphor
Tension or problem between opposing forces
What is conflict?
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
The use of words that imitate sounds (like oink or bang)
Onomatopoeia
A three-lined Japanese verse
Haiku
a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary
What is an antagonist?
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Simile
be a warning or indication of (a future event)
What is foreshadowing?
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in a word
Alliteration
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
the time, place, and circumstances in which something occurs or develops
What is setting?
what the text is mainly about
What is central idea or theme?
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
a feeling or idea or image that a word evokes, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
rhyme
A formal division of lines in a poem (like paragraphs in a poem)
What is a stanza?
Writing that must be interpreted through critical thinking and inference and cannot be taken literally (like metaphors and similes)
Figurative Langague
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Allusion
a literary technique, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
What is Dramatic Irony?
the way an author creates and develops characters in a story, revealing their personalities, traits, and motivations
What is characterization?
Descriptive writing that is rich in details connected to the five senses
What is imagery or sensory details?
What is a couplet?