Literary Language
A return to an earlier time in the course of a narrative to introduce prior information.
What is a flashback?
Life is like a box of chocolates
What is a simile?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
A word that describes a noun is called this.
What is an adjective?
What a story or text is mostly about - the who, what, and why of a text summarizing the core point.
What is the main idea?
The emotional atmosphere produced in the reader by an author’s use of language.
What is mood?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds that are close together.
What is alliteration?
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is a conflict?
The punctuation mark used to indicate possession.
What is an apostrophe?
The deeper, universal message or lesson about life that the author wants to share in a text or story.
What is theme?
The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
A figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating one thing is the other, without using "like" or "as".
The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
What is a metaphor?
Writing based on actual events, facts, or reality.
What is non-fiction?
The word that describes when two words have opposite meanings.
What is an antonym?
Name three of the six elements of the plot of a story.
What are exposition, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
This is used to express a writer’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
When a non-human entity is described as having human characteristics.
The cold slapped me in the face.
What is personification?
The four types of conflict in literature.
What is man v man, man v nature, man v self, and man v society?
The root in the word 'biography' that means 'life'.
What is bio?
The perspective in which a story is told. Name the three types.
What is Point of View?
1st, 2nd, 3rd person
To make judgments or draw conclusions based on what an author has implied.
What is an inference?
Uses extreme, intentional exaggeration to make a point.
I had to walk a hundred miles to school.
What is hyperbole?
The two types of characters in a story.
What is static and dynamic or Protagonist and Antagonist?
Words that come at the beginning of dependent clauses that link them to independent clauses creating complex sentences.
Three main types of author's purpose.
What is to persuade, to inform, or to entertain?