Children's Litature Flashcards
Children’s literature
Focus on your he themes that pertain to choices, morals, and values. Often used as a vehicle to instill proper values in children.
Themes like good triumphing over evil.
Main characters
Usually are given a difficult choice where thee chose the less moral one and have to deal with the difficult consequences. By the end they acknowledge the mistake
Allusion
An implied Terrance to a person, event, thing, or part of another text. Based on the assumption of that there is a shared knowledge between the poet and the reader
Antithesis
Balanced writing about conflicting ideas, usually expressed in a sentence form
Aphorism
A focused succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint.
Apostrophe
Literally device of addressing an absent or dead person, an abstract idea, or an inanimate object.
Connotation
The ripple effect surrounding the implication and associations of a given word
Consonance
The repeated usage of similar constant sounds, most often used in poetry “sally sat shifting seashells by the seashore”
Denotation
What a word literally means
Exposition
Fill in or background information about characters meant to clarify and add narrative
Figurative language
Simile- comparing things using like and as
Metaphors - I direct comparison between two things ex chairs have legs
Parallelism- the arrangement of ideas in phrases, sentences and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording. Ex reading maketh a full man
Hyperbole
Exaggerating for a specific effect
Ex I’m so hungry I could eat a million of these.
Iambic pentameter
An iamb is 3 syllables unaccented and accented per foot of measure
Pentameter means five feet of these iambs per line or ten syllables
Irony
Verbal- says one thing but means another
Dramatic when the audience perceives something the character doesn’t know
Situational the discrepancy between the expected results and the actual results
Motif
A key, often repeated phrase, name, ore idea in a literary work
Paradox
A seemingly untrue statement which when examined more closely proves true
Parallelism
A type of close repetition of clauses of phrases that emphasize key topics or ideas
Early readers
Easy to read from 5-50 pages for children ages 5-9. Includes picture books, board books, activity books and stories that contain graphics.
Middle grade readers
These books, written for ages 10-12 contain strong plots and relevant life lessons. Models their struggles and concerns. Ex Charlotte’s web
Young adult readers
The issues are real and typical of the teenage world. Relationships, politics, education and human nature
