Literary Terms Flashcards
What is the authors Purpose?
The writers reasoning for what they wrote.
What are Rhetorical Devices?
A use of language that is intended to have an effect on the audience.
Ex. Simile, metaphor, and stuff like that.
what are symbols?
A person, place, object, or activity that means something else.
Ex. hope and promise = Rainbow
Luck and fortune = Four leaf clover
What is a Theme?
The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.
Ex. Love, War, Betrayal, Friendship, Revenge, Forgiveness.
What is Inference?
The act or process of reaching a conclusion about something from known facts.
Ex. A character has a diaper in her hand, spit up on her shirt, and a bottle warming on the counter. she is a mother.
What is parallelism?
Coordinate ideas arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that ballance one element with another of equal importance.
What is Repetition?
using the same word or phrase over and over again, to get a point across, in a piece of writing or speech.
Ex. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
What is Text Structure?
Refer to the way authors organize information in the text.
Ex. Compare/Contrast Problem/solution Cause/ Effect Sequence/Process Description
What is a simile?
A type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as”
Ex. Time has not stood still, it has washed over me.
What is supporting textual evidence?
It deals with facts in writing and the strategies used to figure out if the info is factual
Ex. April is so wildly confused that she actually, “hated caroline because it was all her fault!” (Pg#118)
What is a metaphor?
A figure in which a word of phrase literally denot. are kind of subject or idea to suggest a likeness between them.
Ex. Bill is an early Bird, Life is a highway.
what is a Claim/Point of veiw?
The argument made by the writer/Speaker.
What is Mood?
The atmosphere of the Narrative.
Ex. Cheerful, sad, angry, Excited, Anxious, Romantic, Etc.
What is Foreshadowing?
A warning or indication of a future event.
Ex, a mother is worried about her child that is going to a party, something doesn’t feel right. turns out, kids were drinking and got in a huge fight, ending up hurting the woman’s child.
What is an extended metaphor?
An author’s exploitation of a metaphor.
