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Eng II
Literary Terms- Examples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Simile | She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen. |
| Metaphor | Love is a pot full of yellow corn to warm your belly in winter. |
| Foreshadowing | Stay on the path. Never step off the path! |
| Hyperbole | You’ve asked me a million times. |
| Personification | The river could still eat all the streams we know and still be thirsty. |
| Pun | Movie Theater ad – Get a reel deal. |
| Alliteration | Running a scattering of steps sideways |
| Antagonist | the tunnel in "Through the Tunnel" Luis's past in "Catch the Moon" |
| Assonance | So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. |
| Character | Jerry, Henry, Ulrich |
| Climax | Soldiers make fun of the Fat Man. |
| Conflict | Ulrich and Georg fighting over the land. |
| Dialogue | Ansel chimed in, “She wants to speak with you, but I told her you were busy.” “Never mind her. I told you to post that letter immediately.” |
| Exposition | The actress with stormy red hair marched angrily past the crew and body guards. Her attitude magically transformed in the split second that she stepped past the scenery and onto the Broadway stage. The year - 1964. |
| Falling Action | The Fat Man sells his shop and leaves town. |
| Flashback | In "The Waters of Babylon" when the protagonist's spirit is carried back in time and he sees the destruction of the city. |
| Genre | Mystery, Realism, Romance, Science Fiction, Action Adventure, Fantasy, Horror |
| Imagery | A few inches above them the water sparkled as if sequins were dropping through it. |
| Irony | When the King finds out that the Happy Man has no shirt. |
| Narrative | "A Californian's Tale", "Sound of Thunder", and "The False Gem" |
| Narrator | The Californian, Eckels |
| Onomatopoeia | cluck, buzz, chirp |
| Oxymoron | pretty ugly, hateful love, wise fool |
| Plot | Eckels goes to the travel agency, pays for the trip, enters the time machine, is warned by Travis of the dangers of shooting the wrong animal or stepping off the path, etc. |
| Point of view | first person [I], third person limited, third person omniscient [he or she] |
| Protagonist | Jerry, Eckels, Luis |
| Rising Action | Jerry sees the boys diving through the tunnel, tries to be one of them, they tire of him, he decides to go through the tunnel, practices holding his breath, has nosebleeds, his mother worries, he decides today is the day even though he has lost blood. |
| Setting | "The Monkey's Paws" takes place in Laburnam Villa, the cozy home of an elderly English couple and their grown son. It is sometime in the late 1800's. |
| Soliloquy | When Antony stands alone on stage and vows his revenge for Caesar's murder |
| Theme | "The Interlopers" - carrying grudges is senseless. "By the Waters of Babylon" - It is better to lose one's life than one's spirit. |
| Tone | Happiness - "The young girl was a perfect type of the virtuous woman in whose hands every sensible young man dreams of...intrusting his [life]. Fear - "Don't let it in," cried the old man, trembling. |
| Voice | "We are not ignorant like the Forest People-our women spin wool on the wheel..." "I'm getting worried, I'm getting right down worried." |
| Resolution | Fat Man joins the circus. |
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