Literary Terms Flashcards
What is Authors purpose?
The reasoning behind why the author wrote the piece.
What is Rhetorical Devices?
Its a use of a language that is intended to have an effect on its audience
What’s a Symbol?
A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself.
What’s Theme?
The central idea or underlying message that the writer wants the reader to understand.
Whats Interference?
A logical assumption or conclusion that is based on observed facts and one’s own knowledge and experience.
What’s Parallelism?
It’s when the same patterns of words or structures are used to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What’s Repetition
A literary technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis.
What’s text structure?
It’s how an author arranges parts of a story.
What’s a simile?
A simile is comparing two things by using like or as.
What’s Supporting Textual Evidence?
It’s material that serves to prove a claim.
What’s a metaphor?
It’s comparing two things by stating one is the other.
