Literary Terms Pt.1
literature that is made up by an author
What is fiction?
the struggle of a main character, or characters, against an opposing force
What is conflict?
the person or being that tells the story to the reader
What is a narrator?
the POV when a narrator speaks using "I"
What is first person POV?
the series of events that tell a story
What is a plot?
a type of literature; types of literature
What is a genre?
the person or beings who perform the actions in a story
What are character/s?
conversation between two characters
What is dialogue?
features or attributes that distinguish one character or another
What are character traits?
the perspective in which a story is told
What is POV?
the picture that the author is trying to create with words
What is imagery?
the repetition of the last vowel and all the following letters
What is a rhyme?
a plot development that violates a reader's expectation
What is a plot twist?
a plot twist that occurs at the end of a story
What is a surprise ending?
hinting at events that occur later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
artfully compressed thought or as elevated expression
What is poetry?
a person, place, thing or idea that means something in addition to itself
What is a symbol? What is symbolism?
grouping of line verses
What is a stanza?
a departure or artful deviation from literal language
What is figurative language?
an image that appeals to one or more of reader's 5 senses
What is concrete imagery?
language used to convey meaning other than what is stated
What is irony?
comparisons of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
a rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry
What is end rhyme?
similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, sentences or stanzas
What is parallelism?
a pattern of rhymed lines
What is a rhyme scheme?
a brief work of prose fiction that resonates realistic human emotions
the standard definition of a word or expression
What is literal language?