Literary Terms Flashcards
What is Author’s purpose?
The reason an author writes.
What is a rhetorical device?
Figurative language such as repetition or parallelism to effect an audince.
What is a symbol?
An object, person, place; stands for something else.
What is a theme?
The underlying message. What the author wants the reader to understand.
What is an inference?
Prediction in the story; lofical assuption.
What is parallelism?
A pattern of words or a sentence structure.
What is repetition?
To repeat a sound or word for examples.
What is text structure?
Arrangement if the story; novel, poem, esssay.
What is a simile?
Using like or as to compare two things.
What is supporting textual evidence?
Material to prove a claim.
What is a metaphor?
To compare two things.
What is the mood?
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
What is foreshadowing?
A writer’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in a story.
What is the pace?
The speed of the story.
What is irony?
A special kind of constant between appearance and reality - usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems.
