Literary Terms Flashcards
Why she acts, feels, or thinks a certain way
Characters motivation
A scene from an earlier time that interupts the ongoing action of a story
Flashback
Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the readers five senses. Effective imagery creates sensory expirences for the reader.
Imagery
The most important point in the paragraph or the story. It is usually stated in the topic sentence or thesis. It has supporting details that relate to the main idea
Main idea
A written account of another persons life written by someone else.
Biography
The author’s attitudes, belifs, heritage and traditions are often reflectee in his or her writing. These become especially cleat in nonfiction and particulary in memoir, where the author is writing directly about his or her life and background. The author purpose will most likely fall into one of the following categories: entertainment,persuasion, informational, or expression of an opinion.
Author’s purpose
The idea of releating the content of a story to your own knowledge or experience
Connecting
To show or indicate beforehand; to give a glimpse of what may happen in the future.
Foreshadowing
Irony is a contrast of contradiction between what is stated and what is meant or between what’s expected and what actually happens.
Irony
The setting of a story, poem, or play is the time, location, and cultural customs in which the action occurs. The setting could be a backdrop, with no effect on what happens, or it may be important to the action of the story. Clues about time, place, and culture are often scattered throught a story. It can include details about geographic location, historical time, season of the year, time of day or customs of a group of people.
Setting
The messge, moral or meaning about life or human nature that a literary work communicates. Sometimes the theme is not directly stated but is inferred from details, characters, and event. Key phrases, repeated word or ideas and lessons learned by the main character can give clues to the theme.
Theme
A similarity or comparability.
Analogy
The perspective from which a story is told to the readers or the listeners.
Point of View
Asking something
Question
Comparison between unlike things that use like or as to make the comparison
Simile
