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Literary Terms - Sem
literary terms for semester review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When the narrator tells about events that happened before the story. | Flashback |
| Words that have the same sound, but different spellings and/or meanings. | Homophone |
| Who is telling the story, i.e. first-person, third-person, etc. | Point of view |
| A guess made by the reader based on his/her own experiences and information from the story. | Inference |
| A figure of speech; a phrase that means something different than the actual words. | Idiom |
| Words that have the same spelling, but different meanings and/or pronunciations. | Homograph |
| POV when the story is told by a character IN the story. | 1st Person |
| POV when the story is told by someone OUTSIDE the story watching it happen and telling about it. | 3rd Person |
| Something that can be proven and is the same no matter who you ask. | Fact |
| The way a person feels about something; is different from person to person. | Opinion |
| The place and time a story happens. | Setting |
| Clues the author gives the reader that something important is going to happen. | Foreshadowing |
| Text or writing that EXplains, i.e. instructions, a textbook, or a recipe. | Expository Text |
| Text or writing that tells a story, i.e. The Lightning Thief or How to Train Your Dragon. The author's purpose is to entertain. | Narrative Text |
| Text or writing that tries to change your opinion about something, i.e. editorials or advertisements. | Persuasive Text |
| The series of events in a story. | Plot |
| The main character in the story. | Protagonist |
| The character/force the main character is fighting against. | Antagonist |
| The problem in the story. Ex. Character vs character. | Conflict |
| A group of letters placed at the beginning of a base word that change its meaning. | Prefix |
| The author's attitude or beliefs about the story. | Tone |
| How the reader feels about the story while reading it. | Mood |
| The dictionary definition of a word. | Denotation |
| Idea about a word, in addition to its formal definition (ex. smell vs odor vs fragrance) | Connotation |
| The part of the story where the protagonist and setting are introduced. | Beginning/Exposition |
| The most intense part of the story; also called turning point. | Climax |
| The part of the story where the loose ends are tied up, ex. happily ever after. | Resolution |
| Ways the author helps us get to know characters, i.e physical description, how the character acts, and how other characters react to the character. | Elements of characterization |
| Text connections (4) | Ways we connect with a book: text to self, text to text, text within text, and text to world. |
| A word that has the SAME or a similar meaning as another word, i.e. angry/mad | Synonym |
| A word that means the OPPOSITE of another word, i.e. happy/sad, light/dark. | Antonym |
| A group of letters placed at the end of a word that change the part of speech or the verb tense, i.e. walk, walkS, walkED, walkING. | Suffix |
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