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KCA terms
literary terms and figurative language terms for Kansas Assessment HS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| connotation | thoughts, feelings, and images associated with a word |
| denotation | dictionary definition of a word |
| hyperbole | obvious exaggeration used to emphasize a point or add excitement and humor to a story |
| idiom | expression that means something different from what it says; example-make mountains out of molehills or hang by a thread |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to the senses and conjure up mental images |
| metaphor | comparison that uses no connecting words; example-the groves were God's first temple |
| simile | comparison between two seemingly unrelated things, using connecting words such as like, as, or than in the comparison; example-mind like floating wide cloud |
| paradox | contradictory ideas are put against each other, so the statement appears to be untrue; example-must be cruel to be kind |
| personification | giving human qualities or actions to nonhuman things; example-the sun smiled |
| symbol | something concrete that stands for something abstract |
| onomatopoeia | word, such as plop, buzz, or snap, whose sound suggests its meaning |
| allusion | reference made to a famous person, place, or event |
| character | people or animals in short stories, novels, and plays |
| characterization | ways in which an author reveals the traits of characters to his audience |
| conflict | struggle between two forces in a novel, short story, or play |
| flashback | interruption in a story to tell about events that happened earlier |
| foreshadowing | hints about events that will occur further in a story |
| irony | contradictory statement or situation |
| verbal irony | character says something but means the opposite |
| situational irony | what happens in a story is the opposite of what is expected to happen |
| dramatic irony | reader has information that one or more of the characters does not have |
| mood | feeling created in a reader by a literary work |
| tone | attitude an author takes toward his subject, character, or reader |
| theme | underlying meaning in a literary work |
| point of view | narrator's position with respect to the characters and the reader |
| 1st person point of view | uses I, me, my |
| 3rd person point of view | uses he, she, they |
| plot | sequence of events that make up a story |
| exposition | introduction of the characters and setting of a story |
| rising action | development of complications that create the conflict of a story |
| climax | turning point or high point of the story |
| falling action | events that lead to the conflict's resolution |
| resolution | conflict is resolved and the story is ended |
| satire | writing makes fun of habits, ideas, or weaknesses in a person, an institution, an entire society, or humanity in general |
| protagonist | main character in a literary work |
| antagonist | character who opposes the main character |
| round character | characters that have many sides |
| flat character | character that has only one or two sides |
| dynamic character | character changes, grows, or learns something by the end of the story |
| static character | character experiences no major change during the story |
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mralls
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