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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| point of view | refers to the method of narrating a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction. Point of view is usually either first person or third person |
| narrator | is the character or voice from whose point of view events are told |
| foreshadowing | is a writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later in a plot. |
| theme | the main idea in a work of literature |
| setting | the time and place of action of a story. |
| characterization | to the methods that a writer uses to develop characters. |
| indirect characterization: | we learn about a character by his/her actions, speech or what other characters say about that person (character chart) |
| direct characterization: | the author states directly what a character is like. |
| symbol | a person, a place, an activity, or an object that stands for something beyond itself |
| tone: | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject |
| allusion | is an indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event. |
| metaphor | compares two things that are basically unalike, but have something in common (extended metaphor)- compares two things at some length and in several ways. |
| personification: | is a figure of speech in which human qyalities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. |
| speaker | in the poem is the voice that talks to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction. |