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Literary TermsELA
Literary Terms ELA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a conversation between characters | dialogue |
| a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event | anecdote |
| the time and place in a story | setting |
| a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work | character |
| a feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work | suspense |
| brief work of fiction | short story |
| figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else | metaphor |
| a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | soliloquy |
| the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create mental pictures for the reader | imagery |
| formal division of lines in a poem | stanza |
| a central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work | theme |
| three line verse form poem | haiku |
| hints or clues that suggest events that have yet to occur | foreshadowing |
| a poem that tells a story | narrative poem |
| the high point of interest or suspense | climax |
| the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem | speaker |
| writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses | sensory language |
| general term for the literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality | irony |
| speech by one character in a play, story, or poem | monologue |
| lesson taught by a literary work | moral |
| a figure of speech in which "like" or "as" is used to make a comparison between two unlike things | simile |
| prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people | nonfiction |
| a speaker or character who tells a story | narrator |
| the use of words that imitate sounds | onomatopoeia |
| type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics | personification |
| a category or type of literature | genre |
| form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | dialect |
| the ordinary form of written language | prose |
| the writer's attitude toward his/her audience and subject | tone |
| reason that explains why a character thinks, feels, acts, or behaves in a certain way | motivation |
| anything that stands for or represents something else | symbol |
| writing that tells a story | narration |
| a long work of fiction | novel |
| sequence of events in a literary work | plot |
| one of the three major types of literature, the others being prose and drama | poetry |
| writing or speech that attempts to convince the reader to adopt a particular opinion or course of action | persuasion |
| struggle between opposing forces | conflict |
| the repetition of intial consonant sounds | alliteration |
| poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama | dramatic poetry |
| type of conflict that is against opposing forces or characters | external |
| type of conflict that happens within a character's mind | internal |
| hero or usually main character of the story | protagonist |
| the villain of the story | antagonist |
| the vantage point or perspective of a character | point of view |
| a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or effect | hyperbole |
| the sudden moment when memories come back to a character | flashback |
| the direct meaning of a word or the basic dictionary definition of a word | denotation |
| the meaning that a word suggests or implies / the emotions or associations that surround a word | connotation |
| a logical deduction or guess based on evidence in the text | inference |
| patterns of rhyme in a poem | rhyme scheme |
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