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Literary EOC
Literary terms and figurative language EOC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| central idea of a piece of writing, message or truth about life, must be a complete sentence | theme |
| author pokes fun of a group in hopes to bring about change | satire |
| conflict where one character has a problem with another character | man vs man |
| literature meant to be performed by actors on a stage with dialogue | drama |
| end of the story where the problems and conflicts are solved | resolution |
| problem or struggle between two or more opposing forces | conflict |
| similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | parallelism |
| figure of speech which references another piece of literature, history, art | allusion |
| angle from which the story is told | Point of view |
| "I" tell the story | first person |
| narrator relates thoughts and feelings of only one character in story | third person limited |
| writing which tells about real people and events without changing facts | nonfiction |
| writing which comes from the writer's imagination | fiction |
| how you feel while reading a story | mood |
| the turning point of a story, things change | climax |
| contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen | situational irony |
| narrator relates thoughts and feelings of all characters | third person omniscient |
| Time, situation, and place of a story | setting |
| conflict where a character has problems with the accepted way of doing things | man vs society |
| occurs when the audience knows something the actors don't | dramatic irony |
| figure of speech which exaggerates statements, "She gave me a ton of homework." | hyperbole |
| a group of words which take on a totally different meaning in context, "I'm just chilling." "Shoot me an email." | idiom |
| repetition of sounds in the beginning of words in a passage to create mood | alliteration |
| a dramatic speech in drama where the character talks to himself and reveals his thoughts, usually alone on stage | solioquy |
| an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in drama | monologue |
| play on words | pun |
| giving inanimate objects human qualities | personification |
| author's opinion or feelings about a topic | tone |
| comparison of unlike items not using "like" or "as": Her voice was music to my ears. | metaphor |
| Common language of the people | vernacular |
| When the places, events, and or characters represent something or someone else: Gene = Everyman, Finny = Christ | allegory |
| Ways words, phrases, and clauses are grouped together | syntax |
| repetition of the first word or words at the beginning of sentences | anaphora |
| a question which does not expect an answer | rhetorical |
| style of a work is imitated for comic effect or ridicule, The cartoon we saw was a parody of Of Mice and Men. | parody |
| type of literature e.g.-drama, poem, short story | genre |
| When what is said is the opposite of what is expected or has a completely different meaning | verbal irony |
| the sound of saying the word equals the word's meaning, buzz, hiss | onomatopoeia |
| sequence of events: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion | plot |
| comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as": Her voice was like music to my ears. | simile |
| when a character is struggling with thoughts or decisions | man vs self |
| when a character is at odds with nature: Finny and his injury, | man vs nature |
| When a character is at odds with something unreal. Harry Potter and the deatheaters, you and your computer crashing | man vs supernatural/machine |
| speech, thoughts, effects, actions, looks | indirect characterization |
| language that fits the audience, language for the commoners | vernacular |
| saying something that's negative in a positive way | euphemism |
| words that don't literally mean what they should. I'm gonna chill in my crib. | idiom |
| words used by a specific group | jargon |
| word or words repeated at the beginning of lines | anaphora |
| like a verse of a song only in poems | stanza |
| poem showing emotion | lyric poem |
| outsider tells the story but just gives the facts. Like a news story is supposed to be. | third person objective |
| to oppose a certain view or disagree with | refute |
| how the work is presented, video, poem, graph, audio | medium |
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