Literary Terms Flashcards
Connect
Relating the content of a story to your own knowledge and experience
Character motivation
Why the character acts, feels, or thinks in a certain way
Setting
The time and place of a story
Visualize
Reader forms mental images for story
Predict
Someone things will happen next
Biography
A written account of another persons life written by someone else
Characterization
Portrayal or description of a character
Authors purpose
The authors attitudes, beliefs, or traditions reflected in his writing
Metaphor
Comparison that does not use like or as
Simile
Comparison that does use like or as
Point of view
Perspective from which a story is told to the reader
Irony
Contrast or contradiction between what is expected and what actually happens
Theme
The message, moral, or meaning about life or human nature that a literary work communicates
Conflict
The main problem in a story; the struggle between the protagonist and the entagonist
