Literary Terms Flashcards
what are symbols
a phrase or an object that expresses or represents a particular idea.
What is the author purpose
the purpose the author has to write the text.
What is a Rhetorical Device?
a technique that an author uses to convey to the listener or the reader
What is theme
the lesson or the moral behind the story
What’s an inference?
what you think that may happen or be said.
What is parallelism?
When an author uses a word over and over again and gets the audience’s attention.
Repetition
the use of a rhetorical device to bring attention to an idea.
Text Structure
the way a text or a story is set up.
Simile
a figure of speech involving the compersion of one thing with another.
Supporting textual evidence
the strategies used to back up things said or mentioned in the text.
Metaphor
a literary device used to make compression with two things that are slightly similar.
noun
a person place or thing.
verb
a word used to describe an action state or an occurrence
What is a point of view?
a narrator postion in a relation in the way that the story is being told
What is mood
the tone or the way that the story is set up
What is foreshadowing
a warning or an indication of a future event
What is an extended metaphor
a metaphor being extended through multiple sayings
What is pace
the way that the story is being told thru
What is the author’s tone?
the authors atitudude towards the story
What is irony
contrast between expectation and reality
fortunes fool is
because he has killed Tybalt and he knows this will make the situation with his and Juliet’s situation rocky.
a tragic hero is
A tragic hero is a character in a dramatic tragedy who has virtuous and sympathetic traits but ultimately meets with suffering or defeat.
what is foil
A foil character is one that has traits that are opposite of another character - being melancholy to the other’s happiness
what is pun?
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
