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| a story where characters, settings, and actions stand for something beyond themselves |
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repetition of the same sound in several words
ex. "the hair of their foreheads, fluttered, and the flames blew out sideways from the fire" |
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reference to something else
ex. "while we waiting...at once there was a clamor..it's in the book Treasure Island |
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| Character-round character |
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| character-several sides to his personalty; interesting |
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| character-minor; "half" of character traits |
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| Character-dynamic character |
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| character-grows and changes |
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| Character-static character |
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| character-don't progress or change |
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| character-used to contrast another character |
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| emotional intensity or suspense in a plot |
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| happy ending to the story |
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| conflict-Mental or Emotional struggle that occurs within a character |
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| conflict-External conflict is a struggle that occurs between a character and outside forces |
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implied meaning
ex. snake - evil or danger. |
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| way of speaking (region, group, country, year) |
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| conversation between characters |
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| long story told in elevated language; usually poetry; relates great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view |
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| interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
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| clues to hint at events the will occur later |
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category of literature
ex. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama and myth |
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| figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion; creates a comic effect |
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| contrast between expectation and reality |
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irony-when the audience knows something the character does not
ex.Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover that it is himself, which is known to the audience all along. |
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irony-figure of speech; an expression in which the use of words is the opposite of the thought in the speaker's mind
ex. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." |
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irony-what you expect to happen, and what really happens
ex. The president of Microsoft won a contest where the grand prize was a computer system |
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figure of speech between two unlike things WITHOUT like, as, than, or resembles.
ex."the sun was an angry eye" |
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| the atmosphere of feeling that a story evokes |
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| feeling of compassion towards a character |
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| voice or mask assumed by the writer |
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giving a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
ex."far beneath them, the trees of the forest sighed, then roared." |
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| series of related events that make up a story or drama |
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| introduction to characters; basic situation; conflict, main events, and climax |
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| plot-Outcome of the conflict |
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statement the sounds false, but is true
ex.the next statement is true
the previous statement statement is false |
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vantage point of the writer
ex.1st person, 3rd person etc. |
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the time and place of a story or play
ex.an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean during World War ll |
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comparison between two unlike things USING like, as, resembles, or then
ex." he accepted the piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf" |
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person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself
ex."a conch...we can use this to call the others...have a meeting" |
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| attitude a writer takes towards a subject, character, or audience |
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| play the depicts serious and important events where the main character comes to an unhappy ending |
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| set of ideas to explain something |
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