Exam Part A Flashcards
Theme
The message or lesson through the story
Point of view
First person
Second person
Third person
Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Setting
Where, when and what it look like
Characterization
Protagonist
Antagonist
Describing a character
Climax
Turning point in literally work, when the readers interest reaches its highest point
Conflict
Internal conflict
External conflict
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing uses clues that hint towards events that will occur later in the plot.
Irony:
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
Verbal: This is when a character or narrator says something, but means the opposite. Verbal irony is often sarcastic.
Situational: This is the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. It is often demonstrated by an actual result being different than what is expected.
Dramatic: This occurs when the reader or audience has knowledge of details, often some critical piece of information, while the character or characters to whom the information pertains do not yet themselves have the same knowledge.
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things by saying that one thing is the other. (e.g. It’s a jungle out there.)
Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things using the connecting words “like” or “as.”
(e.g. She’s as quiet as a mouse.)
Personification
Personification is a type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes. (e.g. The trees danced in the wind.)
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech in which words sound like what is being described. (e.g. Tick-tock.)
Allitération
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound
repeats in a group of words. The repeating sound usually occurs in the first letter of each word. (e.g. A series of similar sounds.)
