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perserverance unit v
Mrs. Wahl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| perseverance | to never quit; keep trying even when faced with difficulties or obstacles |
| theme | idea or lesson in a story play or other literary work. Universal theme applies to anyone anytime. |
| characterization | how author explains characters personalities. 4 kinds of characterization. |
| inference | assumption based on a writers words and on your own knowledge and experience. |
| external conflict | when a character struggles with an outside force. Person vs. Person/ person vs nature/ person vs. society/ person vs. supernatural |
| internal conflict | struggle in ones mind, includes desires, emotions and needs. Person vs self |
| convey | to make an idea, impression, feeling known to someone else |
| attributes | qualities, characteristics or traits that describe someone. |
| omniscient | all- knowing. Third person omniscient is storytelling where narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the book. |
| connotation | feeling a word suggest(positive/negative) |
| denotation | words meaning in the dictionary |
| cite | a quote or reference as authoritative proof |
| analysis | identifying and understanding literary techniques that have made it effective and explaining and identifying it. |
| explicit | fully and clearly expressed and developed |
| symbolism | a person, place, thing or event that has its own meaning for something beyond itself as well. The use of images to represent internal realities. |
| metaphor | comparison NOT using like or as |
| simile | comparison USING like or as |
| point of view | how a story Etc. is told or narrated. This determines how much info a reader is given. first- narrator in story using I third limited- focused on on characters thoughts third omniscient- reports what all characters think outside story |