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Literary Terms Gr.9
Literary Terms for Grade 9 Ontario English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The sequence of events in a story? | Plot |
| A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work | Character |
| A scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate to events that occurred in the past | Flashback |
| A character or a force in conflict with a main character or protagonist | Antagonist |
| A contradiction between what happens and what is expected is? | Irony |
| A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas is? | Simile |
| The central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work is? | Theme |
| Writing or speech that is not to be taken literally is? | Figurative Language |
| A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics is? | Personification |
| A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Does NOT use "like or as" | Metaphor |
| The perspective or vantage point, from which a story is told is? | Point of View |
| The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story is? | Foreshadowing |
| The turning point or the high point in the action of the plot. It is the moment of greatest tension. | Climax |
| A reference to a well known person, events, place, literary work, or work of art in a story or novel is? | Allusion |
| In the plot of a story or a drama, it introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation is? | Exposition |
| The outcome of the conflict in a plot is? Resolution A struggle between opposing forces is? | Conflict |
| Anything that stands for or represents something else is? | Symbol |
| The main character in a literary work is? | Protagonist |
| The time and place of the action is? | Setting |
| Succession of similar sounds; occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words (cool, cats) | Alliteration |
| Long narratives tracing the adventures of popular heroes | Epic |
| Conventional combination of literary form & subject matter; implies a pre-existing understanding between the artist and the reader about the purpose & rules of the work | Genre |
| Short poem expressing the thoughts & feelings of a single speaker (first person) | Lyric |
| Extended speech made by a single character | Monologue |
| Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings | Narrative |
| Secondary arrangement of incidents, involving not the protagonist but someone less important | Subplot |
| Part of play or narrative, including the exposition, in which events start moving toward a climax | Rising Action |
| Events in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to it's conclusion, or denouement | Falling Action |
| All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work; depends on characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative language | Style |
| The use of words to create a mental picture. Often refers to a sensory experience. The pattern or collection of images within a poem. | Imagery |
| is the attitude the poet takes towards the subject. For example: informal, formal, solemn, playful serious, ironic, condescending, grave, and many others. | Armosphere/Mood |
| is the attitude the poet takes towards the audience. For example: informal, formal, solemn, playful serious, ironic, condescending, grave, and many others. | Tone |
| A narrative poem, usually containing much repetition and a repeated refrain. Often tell of a single episode. | Ballad |
| Poetry that doesn't conform to an regular metre. Line length is irregular. There may or may not be a rhyme scheme. | Free Verse |
| Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Meant to echo speech. | Blank Verse |
| Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllable in a line. | Internal Rhyme |
| A poem that tells a story. for example: an epic or a ballad. | Narrative Poetry |
| A poem with one speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses thought and feeling. for example an elegy, ode, or sonnet. | Lyric Poetry |
| Lyric poem of moderate length. Often praises people, the arts, natural scenes, or abstract concepts. | Ode |
| A stanza of four lines. Rhyme scheme may vary: the most common rhyme scheme is abab. | Quatrain |
| The sound of the word in a poem mimics the sound to which it refers. for example: thud, crackle, buzz, boink, Grrr, Cuckoo. | Onomatopoeia |
| A form of Japanese poetre that states in 3 lines of five, seven, and five syllables - a clear picture designed around a distinct emotion and suggests spiritual insight. | Haiku |
| When the poet employs the use of sounds that are unpleasant to the ear. May be used for effect. For example: Hiss, Spit, Pus. | Cacophony |
| When the poet employs the use of sounds that are pleasant or pleasing to the ear. May be used for effect. | Euphony |
| The even or situation that causes conflict for the main character, gets the action of the story started | Inciting Force |
| How the conflict is resolved, tension is released and normalcy is restored. | Denouement |
| The emotional and imaginative associating surrounding a word, the feeling, images, and memories that surround a word. | Connotation |
| The dictionary meaning of a word. | Denotation |
| The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song | Rhyme Scheme |
| The use of exagerationg as a rhetorical device. | Hyperbole |
| The quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events | Suspense |
| a narrator who tells the story from a biased, or erroneous perspective. She or he provides inaccurate, misleading, conflicting, or otherwise questionable information, and/or misinterprets events because of personal bias, limited understanding, etc | Unrealiable Narrator |
| Recurring object, concept or structure in a work of lietrature, like light and dark when speaking of good and evil | Motif |
| the ordinary form of spoken and written language whose unit is the sentence, rather than the line as it is in poetry | Prose |
| A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. | Allusion |
| The “voice,” the person “speaking” in the poem | Speaker |
| When the choice of words affect the level of formality and the mood | Diction |
| A groupig of lines in a poem. | Stanza |
| The narrator tells the story and accounts for the thoughts, feelings, motives and actions of all the characters. The narrator uses the pronouns she and he. | Third Person Omniscient POV |
| The narrator is outside the story and tells the story through the eyes of only one character. Limited third person uses the pronouns she and he. | Third Peron LImited POV |
| A character from the sotry narrates using the pronoun "I" | First Person POV |
| The narrator is the voice/person telling a story. The narrator keeps the story moving and provides detail between dialogue. The narrator may speak from different points of view. | Narrative POV |
| A character that does not change throughout the book | Static Character |
| Dynamic characters are the opposite. They undergo some kind of change (they learn, develop, even regress) over the course of the work. | Dynamic Character |
| A character based on simple stereotypes | stock character |
| Complex characters, like people in real life. | Realistic Characters |
| Developped characters that have more than 2 traits | Round Characters |
| Characters that are not very developped, with one or two character traits | Flat Characters |
| The techniques used to portray or describe a character (through a character’s dialogue, actions and interactions, or thoughts, as well as through what other characters say and think about him or her). | Characterization |
| Person vs. self | Internal Conflict |
| Person vs. Person Person vs. Society Person vs. nature Person vs. fate | External Conflict |
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