Literary Terms Flashcards
What is the Author’s Purpose?
The reason the author writes.
What is a Rhetorical Device?
Figurative language such as repetition or parallelism affects an audience.
What is a symbol?
An object, person, or place that stands for something else.
What is the theme?
The underlying message
What is an inference?
A prediction in the story, logical assupmtion.
What is parallelism?
A pattern of words or sentence structure.
What is repetition?
Repeat a sound or word for emphasis
What is a text structure?
Arrangement of the story, novel, poem, or essay.
What is a simile?
Compare two like things using like or as.
What is supporting textual evidence?
To look back in the text.
What is a metaphor?
Compare two unlike things stating one is the other.
What is a verb?
Show action or state of being.
What is an adjective
Modify nouns and pronouns
What is a preposition?
Shows relationships between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence.
