Literary Terms
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
A sentence in a passage that states the main idea of the passage.
What is a topic sentence?
Where the setting, characters, and basic situation are revealed.
What is the exposition?
The attitude the writer has towards a subject or audience
What is Tone?
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The author shows you what a character is like through his thoughts, feelings, choices, words and actions.
What is characterization?
A statement that tells what the passage is mostly about. *The reader can determine this AFTER reading and comprehending the passage because it is not always stated outright.
What is the main idea?
The main part of the story where complications arise.
What is rising action?
A popular tone in humorous writing is________________-
What is sarcasm?
Directly compares two things by saying one thing is another thing. Does not use “like” or “as”
The message the author wants you to take away from the story.
What is theme?
More narrow ideas, evidence, examples, details and elaboration that support a main idea in a passage.
What are supporting details?
The most exciting part or intense part of the story for the protagonist; a turning point in the story.
What is the climax?
The overall feeling readers get about a piece of literature
What is mood?
Non-human things are given human qualities or characteristics.
What is personification?
Hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Why the author writes an informational article.
What is author's purpose?
Events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.
What is the falling action?
Tone is set by the____________
What is the author?
The repetition of the same beginning sound in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
The person (or force) in conflict with the protagonist
What is antagonist?
The author wants you do, buy or believe something
Examples-advertisements, persuasive letters, opinions, campaign speeches
What is persuade?
The end of the story where the main conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
Mood is perceived by the ____________
What is the reader?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
What is an idiom?