Literary Terms Flashcards
Point of view
A particular attitude or way of considering a matter
Theme
The topic of a literary work
Conflict
A disagreement or argument in a literary work
Characterization
The act of describing the qualities of someone or something
Voice(grammar)
A term for the relationship between the verb and the noun (active/passive)
Voice(rhetoric)
A distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing
Mood
The suggestive feeling or state of mind in a piece of literature.
Tone
The general attitude of a piece of writing
Context clues
Sources of information outside of words that reads may use to predict the identities and meaning of unknown things
Affixes
An additional element places at the beginning or end of an root, stem, or word, to modify its meaning
Suffixes
A morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative
Etymologies
The story of the origin or words and the way in which their meanings have changed through history
Gerund
A form that’s is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun in English ending in ing
Participial
A word formed from a verb and used an a adjective or noun
Clauses
A unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence and I traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
