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Sanders Lit Terms
Sanders 7/8 Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words that are close together (The sun was shining on the sea.) | Alliteration |
| A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, history, art, etc. | Allusion |
| A comparison made between two unlike items to show how they are alike. | Analogy |
| A brief story told to illustrate a point. | Anecdote |
| The "bad guy" in a story. | Antagonist |
| The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together (A bowl of bad apples sat on the counter.) | Assonance |
| The overall mood of a work of literature. | Atmosphere |
| The story of a person's life told by that person. | Autobiography |
| A song or songlike poem that tells a story.(The Cremation of Sam McGee.) | Ballad |
| The story of a person's life told by someone else. | Biography |
| A character in a literary work who does not change much in the course of the story. | Static Character |
| A character in a literary work who changes as a result of a story's events. | Dynamic Character |
| Any force that drives a character to behave in a certain way (like love, fear, or jealousy.) | Motivation |
| When a writer tells the readers that a character is funny or evil or boring or brave. | Direct Characterization |
| When a writer reveals a character's personality through his/her words, actions, appearance, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. | Indirect Characterization |
| The point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest. | Climax |
| A story that ends happily for its main characters. | Comedy |
| A struggle that takes place within a character's own mind. | Internal Conflict |
| A struggle that takes place with an outside force (another character, society, natural force.) | External Conflict |
| A meaning or emotion suggested by a word. (You are so cool!) | Connotation |
| The dictionary definition of a word. | Denotation |
| Writing that uses images to appeal to the reader's senses. | Description |
| A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people. | Dialect |
| Conversation between two or more characters. | Dialogue |
| A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | Elegy |
| A long narrative poem that tells stories of a heroic character (like Beowulf or The Iliad.) | Epic |
| A brief closing section to a piece of literature. | Epilogue |
| A short piece of nonfiction that discusses a single subject. | Essay |
| Overstating something. | Exaggeration |
| A brief story that contains a moral, a practical lesson about how to get along in life (think Aesop.) | Fable |
| An account that is made up rather than true. | Fiction |
| A word of phrase that describes one thing in terms of another. | Figure of Speech |
| Interruption in the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time. | Flashback |
| A story that has no knows author and was passed on by word of mouth. | Folk Tale |
| The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. | Foreshadowing |
| Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | Free Verse |
| A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era. | Historical Fiction |
| A line of poetry that contains 10 syllables with five sets of unstressed-stressed syllable patterns. | Iambic Pentameter |
| An expression that means something different from the literal meaning of the words. (Hold you tongue.) | Idiom |
| Language that appeals to the senses. | Imagery |
| The reversal of the normal word order of a sentence (Long was her hair...). | Inversion |
| A contrast between what is said and what is really meant. | Verbal Irony |
| A contrast between what happens and what we expected to happen. | Situational Irony |
| A contrast between what the audience knows and what the character knows. | Dramatic Irony |
| A story of extraordinary deeds handed down from one generation to the next; based on some fact but exaggerated. | Legend |
| A short humorous poem that contains five lines, definite syllable pattern (8-8-5-5-8 or 9-9-6-6-9) with rhyme scheme aabba. | Limerick |
| Devices a writer uses to develop style and convey meaning. (allusion, analogy, dialect, exaggeration, etc.) | Literary Devices |
| A poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker; does not tell a story. | Lyric Poem |
| A miraculous change. | Metamorphosis |
| An imaginative comparison between two things "(You are being a bear today"). | Metaphor |
| A hinted connection between two things (" fog rubbing its back on windows, making a sudden leap" compares fog to a cat.) | Implied Metaphor |
| A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. | Meter |
| A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods. | Myth |
| The kind of writing that tells a story. | Narration |
| A poem that tells a story. | Narrative Poem |
| Writing that deals with real people, real events, and real places. | Non-fiction |
| A long fictional story. | Novel |
| A lyric poem on a serious subject. | Ode |
| The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning (buzz, boom, ticktock). | Onomatopoeia |
| Repeated elements of a plot (Big Bad Wolf blows down three houses.) | Parallel Episodes |
| Figure of speech in which a non-human thing is given human characteristics. | Personification |
| Author of a play. | Playwright |
| Series of related events in a story. | Plot |
| A rhythmic kind of language that uses figures of speech, imagery and possibly some rhyming. | Poetry |
| The vantage point from which a story is told. | Point of View |
| Point of view when the narrator knows everything. | Omniscient |
| Point of view when narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character. | Third Person Limited |
| Point of view when narrator uses the pronoun "I" when telling the story. | First Person |
| Any writing that is not poetry. | Prose |
| Main character ("good guy"). | Protagonist |
| Play on multiple meanings of words. | Pun |
| A repeated sound, word, phrase, or line. | Refrain |
| Solution to a conflict. | Resolution |
| Repetition of vowel sounds and all sounds following the vowels | Rhyme |
| Rhymes at the end of lines. | End Rhyme |
| Rhymes within a line. | Internal Rhyme |
| Rhymes that are similar but not exactly the same. | Slant Rhyme |
| Rhymes that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. | Visual Rhyme |
| A musical quality produced by repetition of sound. | Rhythm |
| Time and place of a story. | Setting |
| Comparison using like or as. | Simile |
| Fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter. | Sonnet |
| Group of consecutive lines in a poem. | Stanza |
| The way a writer uses language. | Style |
| A minor plot in a story. | Subplot |
| A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and stands for something else. | Symbol |
| An exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue but is told as though it should be believed. | Tall Tale |
| General insight or idea | Theme |
| Attitude of a writer toward his/her subject. | Tone |
| A play, novel, or other narrative where the main character comes to an unhappy end. | Tragedy |
| A statement that says less than what is meant. | Understatement |
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