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Litertary terms

8th grade PSSA

TermDefinition
Exposition an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc. ) for public display.
Rising action noun. 1. a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
Climax noun the decisive moment in a novel or play; arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.
Falling action Falling action is defined as the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end.
Resolution finding a solution to a problem; a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner.
Simile a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
Metaphor a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Personification noun the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.; representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; a person who represents an abstract quality
Hyperbole noun extravagant exaggeration
Created by: avennochi
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