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| the time and place in which the events of a story, novel or lay occur |
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| the central character in a literary work around the which he main conflict revolves |
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| a person or force in society or nature that opposes the protagonist or cenral character in a literary work |
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| First Person Point of View |
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| the narrator is a charter in the story..referred to as "I" |
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| point of view the narrator reveals the thoughts, feelings and observations of only one character, referring to the characters as "he" or "she" |
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| the narrator is not a character int eh story but someone who stands outside ths tory and commetns on the action |
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| the main idea or message of a literary work |
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| the sequence of events in a narrative work (expostion, characters, setting, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) |
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| struggle between opposing forces ina play or story |
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| when a charaacter struggles against some outside force, such as character, nature, society or fate |
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| the narrator struggles agains something within him or herself |
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| the introduction of the characters, the setting, or the situation at the beginning of a story |
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| the part of a plot that adds complication to the conflict and increases reader interest |
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| the pont at greastest emotional intensity, interest or suspense int he plot of a narrative |
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| in a play or story the action that typically follows the climax and reveals its results |
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| the part of the plot concludes the falling actions by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict |
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| the story of a persons life written in the first person point of view |
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| a type of narrative nonfiction that presents the story of a period in someone's life written in first person point of view |
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| the account of a person's life written by someone other than the subject |
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| from the beginning to the ending..no skipping around |
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| a literary device in which an early episode conversation or event is inserted in the chronological sequence of the narrative |
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| explains a topic or the steops in a process, reports the news, or organizes te work of literature |
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| the central idea or purpose of an essay or other work of nonfiction commonly stated in one or more sentences |
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| similiar to the narrator in a work of prose, a speaker is the voice that communicates with the reader of a poem |
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| in a poem a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence |
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| in poem a group of lines forming a unit |
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| a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry a predictable rhythm |
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| occurs at the end of a line |
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| occurs at the end of a line |
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| the pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem |
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| the repetition of sound most often consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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| the repetion of similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words, especially a line of poetry |
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| the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes |
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| the "word pictures" that writes use to help evoke an emotional response in readers |
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| a specific device or kind of figurative language |
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| a figure of speech using like or as to compare something seemingly unlike things |
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| a figure of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common (does not use like or as) Her eyes were gold dublooms. |
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| a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature or idea is given human characteristics |
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| poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feeling |
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| poetry that uses the elements of drama |
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| long narrative poem on a great and serious subject that is centered on the actions of a heroic figure |
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| prose writing about real peole, places and events |
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| the pattern of sound created by the arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables especially in poetry |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds before or after different vowel sounds |
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| a reference in a work of literature to characters, place, or situations from another work of literature, music, or art or from history |
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| a lyric poem of 14 lines almost always written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme |
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| poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme length, or stanza arrangement, having any rhyme scheme |
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| feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work |
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| the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work |
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| What is an example of an omomatopeia? |
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the cat and the hat
the boy plays with the toy |
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| What are the four types of nonfiction? |
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| narrative, expository, persuasive, despository |
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| explains how to do something |
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| convinces someone to do something |
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| Uses imagery to describe something |
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| What are the (five) characteristics of a ballad? |
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| 1) sing songy 2) repetitive rhyme scheme 3) long 4) love/death 5) repetitive rhyme |
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| What are the characteristics of a haiku? |
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5,7,5--
it was raining hard
i was so very happy
i played in the rain |
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| what are the poetry characteristics? |
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| based on the plot and the theme of Romeo and Juliet |
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