Literary Terms
When two unlike things are compared
What is metaphor
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
Sayings not meant to be taken literally
Idioms
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
Your thoughts on a subject that are not facts.
Opinion
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/main idea?
The all-knowing narrator: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person?
What is 3rd person (omniscient)?
"Sound" words (Bam! Creak!)
What is onomatapoeia?
OST paragraph writing method
What is ICE (Introduce, cite, explain)
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
The only pronoun that is capitalized.
What is "I"?
Tension or problem between opposing forces
What is conflict?
First sentence in a paragraph (usually)
What is the topic sentence?
a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
Hyperbole
What is exaggeration?
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Personification
Punctuation at the end of a "general" sentence.
What is a period?
The sun smiled is an example of...
What is personification?
Person vs. Nature
What is external conflict?
The "C" in ICE.
What is a citation?
Idioms, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, and hyperbole are examples of . . .
What are figurative language?
A direct comparison between two unlike things NOT USING LIKE OR AS
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?
An educated guess in literature
What is inference?
Where a story/text takes place
What is setting?
How YOU feel about a text when reading it
What is mood?
The best dog in the whole world?
What is Mrs. Ashbay's dog?
Person vs. Self
What is internal conflict?
5-7 sentences centered around one idea.
What is a paragraph?
Characters in a novel that change from the beginning to the end
What are dynamic characters?
to make a well informed guess
What is infer?