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Literary Terms
10th grade ELA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exposition | The essential background information at the beginning of a literary (the set up) |
| Rising Action | development of the conflict and complication |
| Climax | The turning point |
| Falling action | results or effects of the literary work |
| Resolution | The end |
| Allusion | a reference to something well known that exists outside of the literary work Ex. MLK Jr. Said... |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds Ex: Tongue twister: She sells seashells by the seashore |
| Antagonist | The character that is the source of the conflict (not always a person) Ex. Nature |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds followed by a different consonant Ex. The pond is long gone. |
| Characterization | How the author develops characters and their personalities |
| Conflict | struggle between 2 opposing forces External: man vs man, man vs. society, man vs, nature Internal: Man vs self |
| dialogue | direct speech between characters |
| dictation | word choice |
| Figurative language | language that represents on thing but means another |
| flashback | the method of returning to an to an earlier point to help clarify or make clear |
| Foreshadowing | hints of what is to come |
| genre | type of category to that a literary work belongs Ex. Historical, romance, mystery |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration Ex. I'm as hungry as a horse |
| Imagery | Language that uses the 5 senses |
| Irony | a contrast to what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
| Metaphor | implied comparison between 2 unlike objects |
| Mood | The felling created by a literary work or passage |
| Motif | a recurring feature of literary work that is related to the theme Ex. abandonment |
| Onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound imitates the meaning Ex. zoom, vroom, hiss |
| Oxymoron | phrase that consists of 2 words that are contradictory Ex. Living dead, girlie man |
| Personification | non human things are given human like characteristics The tree swayed in the breeze. |
| plot | The sequence of events |
| Point of View | How the story is told: 1st person narrator is a character (I, me) 2nd person: narrator refers to who they are speaking to (you) 3rd person limited: narrator zooms into thoughts of 1 character 3rd person omniscient: narrator zooms into thoughts of all |
| protagonist | Main character |
| rhyme | repetition of similar and identical sounds |
| rhyme scheme | patterns of lines in poetry |
| setting | time and place |
| simile | direct comparison using like or as |
| soliloquy | a dramatic device in which a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud |
| speaker | voice in a poem: the person or thing that is speaking |
| stanza | group of lines forming a unit in a poem Example: “paragraph” |
| Suspense | technique that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next |
| Symbol/Symbolism | one thing (object, person, place) used to represent something else Example: American flag = freedom |
| Theme and Central Idea | the underlying main idea of a literary work Theme differs from the subject of a literary work in that it involves a statement or opinion about the subject Example: Money doesn’t buy happiness |
| Tone | the author’s attitude toward the subject of a work Example: Sarcastic |
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shann1
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