Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Heather Lit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Figurative Language | Similies & metaphors |
| Metaphor | Bob is a pig. |
| Simile | @ things compared using "like" or "as" |
| Metonymy | "the crown" meaning the queen. When one word is substituted for another |
| Apostrophe | Addressing an object as though it were real..."O Mountain" |
| Hyperbole | Overstatement |
| Gratuitous Act | A deed w/o cause or motive |
| Personification | Thing or animal is given human characteristics |
| Synecdoche | When a small part stands for the whole or vice versa Wheels means car |
| verbal irony | when someone says the opposite of what is meant. (sarcasm) |
| irony of situation | Character is expecting one thing to happen and the opposite happens |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader sees the on coming disaster and the character doesn't |
| Ironic Twist of fate | when the characters get something that they didn't deserve |
| Understatement | when something is described in a way that is less then the true case |
| Paradox | Using contradiction in a way that makes sense. "There is no freedom without laws" |
| sarcasm | sour statement tinged with mockery Same as verbal irony |
| Diction | word choice |
| dialogue | Conversation between 2 or more people |
| Soliloquy | Character speaks his innermost thoughts alone to himself....Type of monologue |
| Monologue | An extended speech where the characters has listeners |
| Aside | short passage spoken to the audience not heard by other characters |
| Story of Initiation | character initiated into maturity or experience |
| Satire | Witty humorous attack on something the author disapproves of |
| Novella | Longer than a short story & shorter than a novel |
| Epic novel | Based on war or life & actions of a hero |
| Novel | book length, more characters & scenes |
| Fiction | Not true |
| Non Fiction | True |
| Fable | Everything leads to a moral. Animals & nature |
| Journal | form of autobiographical writing, day by day |
| memoir | autobiographical dealing with recollections of memorable event |
| Essay | brief prose of a restricted topic |
| novelette | short novel written for a magazine |
| biography | written account of a persons life |
| autobiography | story of ones life written by that person |
| historical novel | fiction that claims a basis in fact, in another place & time |
| romance novel | life as we wish it was, not as it is |
| short story | more realistic than a tale. tries to show rather than tell |
| fairy tale | world of magic, dark in nature |
| tale | strange & wonderous events, revelation of the marvelous rather than character |
| parable | human characters, realistic plots, teaches a moral |
| picaresque novel | likable scoundrel, at odds w/ society, rascal or rogue who recounts his adventures |
| epistolary novel | story is told through letters |
| apprenticeship novel | a coming of age novel |
| Static character | fixed character, unchanging |
| dynamic character | a changing character |
| round character | complex, central, depth & detail, changing |
| flat character | only 1 outstanding trait, rarely main character, do not change |
| stock character | common, 'mad scientist' |
| foil | character used to highlight opposing traits in another character |
| hero | central character |
| antihero | protagonist lacking 1 or more conventional qualities of a hero |
| antagonist | most significant force that opposes the protagonist |
| protagonist | main character, main action of the story, in conflict with the antagonist |
| dramatic situation | person involved in a conflict |
| complication | introduces new conflict |
| crisis | point when crucial action, decision, must be made, making a turning point |
| conflict | general struggle between 2 or more forces |
| recognition | moment when ignorance gives way to knowledge |
| epiphany | moment of insight, "ah ha" moment |
| truism | a claim so obvious it's not worth mentioning |
| convention | established feature understood by author & reader.....once upon a time |
| enjambment | run on sentences, w/o punctuation |
| 1st person | when narrator is also a character using "I", "we" |
| 3rd subjective | narrator knows thoughts & feelings off more than 1 character & can switch between them |
| 3rd objective | fly on the wall doesn't allow the author to express thoughts & feelings of other characters, unbiased point of view |
| 3rd limited | knows thoughts & feelings of 1 character, 'he' 'she' 'they' |
| 3rd omniscient | narrator plays no part, but knows all, most reliable |
| exposition | beginning, when everyone is introduced, setting |
| rising action | when events start moving towards the climax |
| climax | moment of greatest intensity |
| falling action | after climax, towards conclusion |
| denouement | resolution, end |
| plot | arrangement of events |
| sub plot | 2nd story line, enhancing the first plot |
| setting | time & place, climate, season, year, location |
| tone/mood | the works feeling & manner |
| symbolism | object or person that represents something else |
| motivation | reason for the characters actions |
| suspense | pleasurable anxiety we fee, makes us wonder whats going to happen next |
| scene | described vividly in detail, creates an illusion, reader feels like they are there |
| imagery | descriptive language that creates a sensory experience |
| theme | recurring subject or idea evident in a work |
| flashback | scene relived in a characters memory, used to show something that happened before the story |
| style | writer's particular way of writing |
| allegory | when person place or thing consistently points to a parallel sequence of symbolic events....character named faith |
| in media res | starting a story in the middle of events w/o an explanation of what happened before |
| deus ex machine | 'a god from a machine' forced or improbable device used in the resolution |
| foreshadowing | arranging events in a way that gives clues to upcoming events |
| allusion | character name that makes reference to a place, event, famous person ect. |
| persona | fake person created to be the narrator, not just a character |
| onomatopoeia | word that makes the sound of crash...buzz....bang ect. |
| denotation | literal definition |
| connotation | additional meaning of a word |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in successive words |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in successive words |
| minimalists | realistic fiction, flat, laid back, unemotional tone, just facts |
| genre | categorizes works by subject matter |
Created by:
Hodapp
Popular Languages sets