English midterm Literary terms Flashcards
to mark details, main ideas/thoughts and vocabulary that you may want to revisit
Annotate
brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature
Allusion
the narrator is a character in the story and uses the personal pronoun “I”
First person
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Annotate
Foreshadowing
When an author plants clues early in the text that hint at what is to come
Characterization
understanding more about a character through their thoughts and actions
mood
feelings created in the reader through the authors words
setting
the time and place of a story
symbolism
when a specific object stands for itself and something larger
theme
the main idea or the basic meaning of literary work
Third person limited
the narrator is outside the story but presents the story through the thoughts and feelings of one character
Third person omniscient
The narrator is outside the story and knowns the thoughts and feelings of all the characters
Tone
The authors attitude towards a particular subject
Metaphor
speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Simile
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more vivid
