Literary Terms

Question 1

What is the Author’s Purpose?

Answer 1

Author’s purpose is the reason why the author is writing.

ex- persuade, inform, explain, or entertain

Question 2

What is a Rhetorical Device?

Answer 2

Figurative language such as repetition or parallelism to effect an audience.
Repetition- repeated sound or word
Parallelism- pattern of words

Question 3

What is a symbol?

Answer 3

an object person or place stands for something else/represents ideas.

Question 4

What is the Theme?

Answer 4

The underlying message the author wants the reader to understand.

Question 5

What’s an Inference?

Answer 5

Prediction in the story; logical assumption

Question 6

What’s Parallelism?

Answer 6

a pattern of words correspond in grammatical structure sound meaning etc.

Question 7

What’s Repetition?

Answer 7

A repeating sound or word, that has already been said or written.

Question 8

What does Text Structure mean?

Answer 8

an arrangement of the story.

• sequence of events
• description
• time order/ chronology.

Question 9

What is a Simile?

Answer 9

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another.
ex-He is a busy bee

Question 10

What does Supporting textual evidence mean?

Answer 10

demonstrates you have read and understand the text, and its a sentence/quoting from the text to use in a answer for a question.

Question 11

Whats a Metaphor?

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action.
ex- it’s Raining cats and dogs.

Question 12

What is the Claim of a story?

Answer 12

in an argument, a claim is the writer’s position on an issue or problem.

Question 13

What is the Point of view of the story?

Answer 13

point of view refers to the method of narration used in a short story, novel etc.

Question 14

What does mood of the story mean?

Answer 14

Mood is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. descriptive words, imagernary, and figurative language contribute to the mood of a word, as do the sound and rhythm of the language used.

Question 15

What’s Foreshadowing?

Answer 15

A writer’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in a story. The hints and clues might be included in a characters dialogue or behavior, or they might be included in details of description.

Question 16

What’s an Extended Metaphor?

Answer 16

an extended metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways. It does not contain the words like or as.

Question 17

What is the pace of the story?

Answer 17

Pacing refers to how fast or slow the story is moving for the reader. This is determined by the length of a scene and the speed at which you, the writer, distribute information.

Question 18

Whats Irony?

Answer 18

It’s a special kind of contrast between appearance and reality- usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems.
ex:
Dramatic Irony-in which the reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know.

Question 19

What’s Foreshadowing?

Answer 19

Foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.

Question 20

whats is the Mood of a story?

Answer 20

• Mood is the atmosphere of the narrative.

- Mood is created by means of setting, attitude, and descriptions.

Question 21

What does Pace of a story mean?

Answer 21

pace, or pacing is the speed at which a story is told.

Question 22

Verbal Irony

Answer 22

Verbal Irony-Verbal irony occurs when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying. ex, (a character stepping out into a hurricane) “What nice weather we’re having!”

Question 23

Situational Irony

Answer 23

Situational irony takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens.
Ex- A fire station burning down, or someone posting on Twitter that social media is a waste of time

Question 24

what is a Rhetorical Question?

Answer 24

a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Question 25

what does the mood of a story mean?

Answer 25

mood is the atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting, attitude, and descriptions.

Question 26

Author’s Tone

Answer 26

The author’s tone of voice refers to the words that are added to show point of view, emotion, or attitude.

Question 27

Extended Metaphor?

Answer 27

is a metaphor in a literary work, such as a novel or poem, that isn’t just used in one line but is extended over multiple lines.

Question 28

What is the meaning of Figurative Language?

Answer 28

any figure of speech which depends on a non-literal meaning of some or all of the words used. There are many types of figurative language, including literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, and many pun examples, to name just a few.

Question 29

What does Fortune’s Fool mean?

Answer 29

Instead of good things happening to him, fortune has played him for a fool. He believes his Juliet is dead and his future has ended.

Question 30

Dramatic Irony

Answer 30

a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

Question 31

Tragic Hero

Answer 31

A tragic hero is a character in a dramatic tragedy who has virtuous and sympathetic traits but ultimately meets with suffering or defeat.

Question 32

what is Foil?

Answer 32

foil, in literature, a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.

Question 33

What does Pun mean?

Answer 33

A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.