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Literary Skills Focus
Reading Skills Focus
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Latin/Greek Roots
100
Very old, imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages
What is archetype?
100
The reason the author is writing
What is author's purpose?
100
point of view
What is perspective?
100
Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be understood on a literal level
What are figures of speech?
100
bio/life/
What is biology?
200
The device that interrupts the chronological sequence of events in a story
What is flashback?
200
Educated guesses based on clues in the text and on your own knowledge and experience
What is inference?
200
explain the meaning of
What is interpret?
200
The central insight into human experience expressed by an author in a piece of literature
What is theme?
200
gen/birth/
What is generate?
300
Hints of clues that suggest what will happen later in the plot
What is foreshadowing?
300
An intelligent guess made based on evidence and prior knowledge
What is inference?
300
part
What is aspect?
300
Account by a writer of his or her own life
What is autobiography?
300
log/logue/ /dialogue
What is word/thought?
400
A reference to someone or something that is well known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, etc.
What is allusion?
400
Author's attitude toward the characters
What is tone?
400
give as an example
What is cite?
400
the repetition of a phrase or line, usually at the end of a stnaza
What is refrain?
400
vid/vis/ /video
What is see?
500
An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are extremely different from each other
What is conceit?
500
Believability
What is plausibility?
500
implied
What is implicit?
500
Type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to reveal a weakness or to bring about social reform
What is satire?
500
/speak/dictionary
What is dic/dict?