Grade 6, Class L.A. :Literary Terms Flashcards
Setting
the time and place of a story, a poem,
3: when, where, what
Characterization
The way an author show and tells about a character
3: personality show tell
Narrative Point of View
It tells the story from different point of view
3; P.O.V
Point Of View
Mood
How the author makes the reader feel
3: Emotions, feeling given
Tone
The speaker’s feeling about subject
3: Atitude towards subject
Dialogue
Convo. between two people
3: Convo. between character
Onomatopoia
A word whose sound imetates its meaning
3: sounding imntating words
Symbolism
Investing symbolic meaning into an object
3: sometimes rep. idea
Irony
A contrast between what is expected
3: opposite, hypothic, surprism
Imagery
languages that appears to the senses
3: languages to senses
Personification
Giving a unanimate object/tings inamite unites
3: unliving becomes living
Metaphor
A comparison between two things at one becomes another thing
3: no, like, as
Simile
A comparison between two unlike things using word such as like, as, then
3: like or as
Figurative Language
A language that describes one thing in term
3: Simily, Metaphor, Personification
Theme
A theme is the idea the writer wishes to reveal about the subject
3: Authors main message
