Literary Terms Flashcards
Relating content of the story to your own knowledge or experience
Connect
Why the character acts, feels, or thinks a certain way
Character motivation
The time and place of a story
Setting
Reader forms mental images of the story
Visualize
What someone thinks will happen next
Predict
Biography
A written account of another person’s life someone else
Characterization
portrayal or description of a character
Authors purpose
Authors attitudes, beliefs, heritage, or traditions reflected in writing
Metaphor
Comparison that does not like or as
Simile
Comparison using like or as
Point of view
Perspective from which a story is told to the reader
And contrast or contradiction between what is expected and what happens
Irony
The message, moral, or meaning about life or human nature that a literary work communicates
Theme
