Define Flashcards
Foreshadow
Hinting at events that take place later in the story
Theme
Main idea of the story, message, lesson
Personification
To give an inanimate object human attributes or characteristics
Connotation
An idea or feeling that a word makes in addition to it’s literal or primary meaning
Connection (Text- to)
A comparison between the text a personal experience or thought (self), another text, book, or article (text), or other world events or histories (world)
Narration
A story told from someone’s point of view
Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows something that the characters don’t
Simile
Comparing two unlikely things using like or as
Onomatopoeia
Sounds how it’s spelt
Conflict
- the main problem between the proverbial “protagonist” and “antagonist”, groups/characters in a story
- types: man vs. self, man vs. society, man vs. nature
Metaphor
A comparison between two seemingly unlike things using is
Analogy
Explaining a complicated idea in terms of a simple one
Thesis
The ‘idea’ statement of an essay, what the author is trying to prove
Plot
Main events of what happens in the story
Irony
When something happens that you would never expect to happen
