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LA Lit Terms 3-4
LA Lit Terms for "The View From Saturday"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Point of View -Def. | The perspective from which a story is told. The voice telling the story. |
| Point of View - Ex. | Mrs. Olinski - 3rd Noah - 1st |
| Simile - Def. | Using like or as to compare something |
| Simile - Ex. | Trading coupons was a lot like playing Go Fish |
| Allusion - Def. | A usually brief, often causal reference to some other person, even, or thing. (usually someone famous in literature) |
| Allusion - Ex. | T.S. Elliot Alice in Wonderland Raphael Cpainter Mad Tea Party |
| Flashback - Def. | A section of a novel that interrupts the Chronological sequence of events to relate something that happend at an earlier time. |
| Flashback - Ex. | Noah at the wedding How Mrs. Oliski selects the Team Grandpa Izzy meeting Margert |
| Pun - Def. | A play of words in which two different meanings for the same word, or two words that sound the same, are used humorously. |
| Pun - Ex. | I would be living in the state of divorce and New York. Gingers is a genius of her genus. |
| Foreshadowing - Def. | Hints of suggestions about something that will occur later in the novel. |
| Foreshadowing - Ex. | Yet-to-come moment Mrs. Olinski finally understands why she chose the members of her Academic Bowl Team |
| Idioms - Def. | A figurative expression with a meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words in the phase. |
| Idioms - Ex. | It is trying to stand on your own two feet especially when you don't have a leg to stand on, so to speak. Break a leg. |
| Personification - Def. | When an author grants lifelike qualities to nonhuman objects. |
| Personification - Ex. | The rain battered the car. The wipers danced back and fourth. |
| Decorum | dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress |
| Superb | admirably fine or excellent; extremely good |
| Domiciles | a place of residence; abode; house or home |
| Bickering | to engage in petulant or peevish argument |
| Courteous | having or showing good manners |
| Hover | to hang fluttering or suspended in the air |
| Trounce | to beat severely |
| Protruding | to project |
| Podium | a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra |
| Incandescently | glowing or white with heat |
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