Literary Terms Flashcards
What is author’s purpose?
Author’s reasons for writing
Ex. PIEE
What are Rhetorical Devices?
Figurative language that repeats. Ex. Repetition/ Parallelism
What are symbols?
Something that stands for something else. Ex. Object, person, or place that the author is comparing to something else.
What is theme?
Underlying message that the author wants you to understand. Ex. Secret message, point of the story.
What is an inference?
Prediction in the story, logical assumption. Ex. A guess to what will happen later in the story.
What is parallelism?
A pattern of words or sentence structure that repeats. Ex. Repeating words in a sentence.
What is Repetition?
Repeating a sound or word. Ex. Cat, hat, mat, sat, bat.
What is text structure?
Arrangement of a story. Ex. How the story is made, what goes first in the story.
What is a simile?
Comparing something to something else while using like or as. Ex. As brave as a lion. Fast like a fox.
What is supporting textual evidence?
Material to prove a claim. Ex. a sentence in the text that proves something.
What is a metaphor?
A sentence that compares one thing to another.
What is the point of view?
The narrator’s position in relation to a story being told. Ex. “This story is told from a child’s point of view.”
What is mood?
Overall feeling of the story. Ex. setting, attitude, or descriptions.
What is foreshadowing?
Hints about what is going to happen later. Ex. She saw the clouds were darker than usual. “There must be a storm coming”
What is a extended metaphor?
A type of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines.
