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MTMS Lit Terms
Gold Lit Packet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement :p |
| Idiomatic Expression | an expression peculiar to itself grammatically or that cannot be understood if taken literally. :p |
| Imagery | group of words which appeals to the senses; serves to intensify the impact of the work |
| Metaphor | comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"; expresses an idea through the image of another object. :p |
| Oxymoron | a two or three word phrase that contains opposite words or ideas. :p |
| Personification | |
| Simile | comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" :p |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words :p |
| Connotation | feeling suggested by a given word :p |
| Denotation | the dictionary definition of a word :p |
| Characterization | method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities :p |
| Theme | main (or major) idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work :p |
| Fiction | any story that is produced of imagination rather than fact :p |
| Allusion | implied or indirect reference to a familiar person, place or event :p |
| Flashback | device used to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story :p |
| Foreshadowing | device that creates expectation or sets up an explanation of later developments :p |
| Irony | Incongruity (or difference) between actual results and expected results :p |
| Onomatopoeia | words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning; words that mimic the sounds they denote :p |
| Symbolism | device in literature where an object represents an idea; something concrete represents something abstract :p |
| Mood | the emotions of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work; what the reader feels :p |
| Style | the way an author writes :p |
| Tone | the attitude of the author toward the audience and characters :p |
| Author's Purpose | author's intent is either to inform, entertain or persuade :p |
| Author's Thesis | the topic and a specific feeling associated with it :p |
| Main Idea | tha author's central thought; chief topic of a text :p |
| First Person | "personal" point of view; relates events as perceived by a single character :p |
| Third Person | point of view that presents the events from outside a single character's perception :p |
| Autobiography | the story of a person's life written by himself or herself :p |
| Biography | the story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work. :p |
| Editorials | a newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinions of the editors or publishers :p |
| Expository Text | text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic :p |
| Fable | narrative intended to convey a moral :p |
| Folktales | a story originating in oral tradition (examples are ghost stories, fairy tales, fables and anecdotes):p |
| Genre | category used to classify literary works :p |
| Legends | story about a mythical or supernatural beings or events, or a story coming down from the past :p |
| Public Documents | a document that focuses on civic issues or matters of public policy at the community level and beyond :p |
| Affix | one or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of word or base :p |
| Homophone | one or two or more words pronounced alike, but different in spelling or meaning :p |
| Suffix | groups of letters placed after a word to modify its meaning or change part of speech :p |
| Synonym | words that have highly similar meanings :p |
| Climax | turning point in a narrative :p |
| Resolution | portion of a story following the climax, in which the conflict is resolved :p |
| Rising Action | part of the story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated :p |
| Epic | long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero of great historic or legendary importance :p |
| Free Verse | poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns; sounds like everyday speech :p |
| Limerick | light or humorous verse form of five lines of which line 1,2 and 5 rhymes, and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. :p |
| Meter | repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry :p |
| Poetic purpose | text with literary devices and language peculiar to poetry :p |
| Rhyme | identical or very similar recurring fianl sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem :p |
| Rhythm | pattern or beat of a poem :p |
| Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed :p |
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