Literary Terms Flashcards
What is the author’s purpose?
Reasoning behind why the author wrote the piece.
What are Rhetorical devices?
Use of language that is intended to have a effect on the audience.
What is a Symbol?
A person, place, object or a activity that stands for something beyond itself.
What is Theme?
The central idea or underlying message that the writer wants the reader to understand.
What is a Inference?
A logical assumption or conclusion that is based on observed facts and one’s own knowledge and experience.
What is Parallelism?
When the same patterns of words or structures are used to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What is Repetition?
A literary technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis.
What is Text Structure?
How a author arranges parts of a story.
What is a Simile?
Comparing two things by using like or as.
What is Supporting Textual Evidence?
Material that serves to prove a claim.
What is a Metaphor?
Comparing two things by stating one is another.
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What is Figurative Language
Creates comparisons by linking the senses and the concrete to abstract ideas.
What is Fortunes Fool
Blame fate for what happened than the event.
What is claim
Writers position on issue
Inference
Logic based on facts
Tragic hero
Tragic end
Foil
Tragic flaw
character deflects
Dramatic Iorny
Audience knows what characters don’t
Pun
Jokes
Foreshadowing
Predicting or knowing whats gonna happen next
