LA PAT Flashcards
Anecdote
A story about something real
Antagonist
A character in the anecdote
Autobiography
A story about someone’s life
Biography
A story about someone
Climax
The most intense part of the story
Complication
A problem or dilemma
Conflict
A disagreement or argument
Denouement
Final part
Dialogue
2 people are talking
Exposition
An explanation
Falling Action
After the climax
Fiction
Not real
First Person
Using I, me. Saying your point of view.
Flashback
A sudden memmory
Flat Character
A character that stays the same
Foreshadowing
A wanring or indication
Genre
The topic
Heroic
Having the characteristics of a hero
Heroine
Admired
Memoir
A historical account or biography
Narrative
A story
Non- fiction
Based on a true story, its a fact
Omniscient
Seeing something
Parallelism
A word that creates a tone or a flow for poetry.
Plot
Plan in secret
Protagonist
Main character
Rising Action
Story gets exciting
Suspense
Uncertain feeling
Third Person
She, he, it. Outsider looking
Alliteration
The beginning of the word starts with the same letter.
Allusion
An indirect reference in literature
Assonance
Words that rhyme is used commonly in a sentence or piece of literature. The vowels are the same
Consonance
Vowels are different, but the words rhyme.
Hyperbole
Not literal and exaggerated
Irony
Something that is said means the opposite of what they meant.
Limerick
Humorous shot lines
Metaphor
A figure of speech that isn’t literal.
Onomatopoeia
Sounds
Oxymoron
Figure of speech
Parody
Imitation
Personification
Referring to human attributes, but using them in sentences makes them not literal.
Pun
Joke
Simile
Comparison of 2 things
Stanza
Paragraph
Symbolism
Using symbols
Rhyme Scheme
Sounds that are repeated
Rhyme
Similar sounds
Excerpt
A short part of a story (passage that is taken away from a story).
