Literary Terms

Question 1

what are symbols

Answer 1

a phrase or an object that expresses or represents a particular idea.

Question 2

What is the author purpose

Answer 2

the purpose the author has to write the text.

Question 3

What is a Rhetorical Device?

Answer 3

a technique that an author uses to convey to the listener or the reader

Question 4

What is theme

Answer 4

the lesson or the moral behind the story

Question 5

What’s an inference?

Answer 5

what you think that may happen or be said.

Question 6

What is parallelism?

Answer 6

When an author uses a word over and over again and gets the audience’s attention.

Question 7

Repetition

Answer 7

the use of a rhetorical device to bring attention to an idea.

Question 8

Text Structure

Answer 8

the way a text or a story is set up.

Question 9

Simile

Answer 9

a figure of speech involving the compersion of one thing with another.

Question 10

Supporting textual evidence

Answer 10

the strategies used to back up things said or mentioned in the text.

Question 11

Metaphor

Answer 11

a literary device used to make compression with two things that are slightly similar.

Question 12

noun

Answer 12

a person place or thing.

Question 13

verb

Answer 13

a word used to describe an action state or an occurrence

Question 14

What is a point of view?

Answer 14

a narrator postion in a relation in the way that the story is being told

Question 15

What is mood

Answer 15

the tone or the way that the story is set up

Question 16

What is foreshadowing

Answer 16

a warning or an indication of a future event

Question 17

What is an extended metaphor

Answer 17

a metaphor being extended through multiple sayings

Question 18

What is pace

Answer 18

the way that the story is being told thru

Question 19

What is the author’s tone?

Answer 19

the authors atitudude towards the story

Question 20

What is irony

Answer 20

contrast between expectation and reality

Question 21

fortunes fool is

Answer 21

because he has killed Tybalt and he knows this will make the situation with his and Juliet’s situation rocky.

Question 22

a tragic hero is

Answer 22

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

Question 23

what is foil

Answer 23

A foil character is one that has traits that are opposite of another character - being melancholy to the other’s happiness

Question 24

what is pun?

Answer 24

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

Question 25

what is dramatic irony

Answer 25

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Question 26

what is tragic flaw.

Answer 26

a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy.