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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Denotation

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The dictionary definition of a word

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Connotation

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The emotive or associative meaning of a word . Ex: mommy

Or stench - negative connotation

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Economical language

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Conservative use of language either through deliberate choice or weaning away over time

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Alliteration

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The beginnings of the word sound alike . Swallows swooping. Skaters skim

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Consonance

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Repetition of a consonant sound in a line or lines of poetry. And twenty rubber butter rolls (t’s, b’s)

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound in a line or lines of poetry . Of her gleaming, green hair (long e)

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds . Meow , ah-choo, bang

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Direct (sensory, concrete) imagery

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Touch, taste, sight, smell, sound

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Indirect imagery (also figurative language )

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Simile, metaphor, personification

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Simile

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A stated comparison using like or as . She sings like a robin. He laughs like a hyena .

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Metaphor

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An implied comparison . His smile lights up the room. ( indirectly comparing his smile to a lamp or the sun )

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Personification

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Applying human characteristics to anything non human. Chair legs . The breeze sings

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Symbol

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A thing that is itself and stands for something else. Moby Dick, the sea, an apple tree

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Mother goose (or nursery rhymes)

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Short, repetitive, oral rhymes

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Lyric

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Brief, subjective poem , imagination, melody , and emotion

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Ballads/narratives/epics

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Tell stories

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Nonsense

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Plays with the usual sense of words

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Haiku

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3 lines : 5,7,5

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Limerick

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Light verse , 5 lines –1,2,5,3,4

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Shape poems

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Include visual figures within the poems

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Songs

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Poetry set to music

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Closed form poetry

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Regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme . Many patterns :ABAB, ABCB, ABCC, etc

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Open form poetry

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No discernible regularity in rhythm and rhyme patterns

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Rhythm

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Repetition of beats in a line or lines of poetry

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Rhyme

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The end of words sound the same

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Irregular or inexact rhyme

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Usually found in otherwise closed form poetry : walls/ball , walked/talked, also includes sight rhymes: breath /wreath

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Charles Perrault

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French folk take collector c. 1690

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The brothers Grimm

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Germanic collectors of oral tales. C. 1800

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John newberry

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London bookseller and printer , sold the first book for the child consumer 1744

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Newberry Award

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Given to the outstanding book for children or young adults published in America

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Carnegie medal

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Given to the outstanding children or young adult book published in England

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Caldecott medal

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Given for the outstanding picture book published in America

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Greenaway award

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Given for the outstanding picture book published in England

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Plot

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The happenings or actions and also the connections between the actions (causal relationship)

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Character

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Those who act or are acted upon

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Character type

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Characters known by only one or two characteristics

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Archetype

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Characters familiar in stories from all times and places (hero, mentor , etc)

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Stereotype

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Do not use this term to discuss story . Refers to oversimplified judgments of people or ethic or racial groups

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Setting

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The time and place of the story

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Theme

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The abstract ideas suggested by the concrete details of a story

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Style

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In oral tales, stories are marked by repetition , character types and archetypes, and economy of language

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Oral take characteristics

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View on file on computer week 2
Setting 
Plot
Character 
Ideas
General qualities (which suggest why ora tales are appropriate for the young child )
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Oral tales=traditional tales

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Orally composed and existed in the oral tradition in many variants for years before being written down by someone . They are anonymous products of the collective unconscious of a folk, pre- literate , culture. Loosely divided into folk tales, hero tales , myths

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Folktales

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Short, self contained, oral stories dealing with local occurrences

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Variant

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Any retelling of an oral tale

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Tale type

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Traditional tale with an independent existence ( nursery tale, cumulative tale, trickster, pourquoi , marchen, historical, tall tale ,noodle head story, ghost stories , Cinderella stories, fable, cautionary )

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Motif

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Smallest element in a tale having the power to exist in tradition 
Character motifs 
Youngest child 
Wicked step
Animal form
Plot motifs 
Kind deeds 
Gain power using a name 
Misuse magic 
Wear slipper
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Hero tales

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The quest of an individual to discover his or her own role in society - More info on blackboard

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Myths

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Religious stories believed true by those who originated them -more info on blackboard

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Literary tales

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Written rather than orally composed , by an individual author, thus it has affixed text (no variants ) that reflects the conscious artistry of an individual personality at a particular place and time

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Court tradition

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Drawn from the work of Perrault , the court tradition literary tale uses a narrative voice that is sophisticated and witty. It often burlesques folk tale conventions , frequently lasping into parody. Focused on adults, the aristocrat , human creations (art) and appeals to reason and worldly wisdom

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Parody

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A usually humorous piece that imitates another piece or style . In contemporary usage is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject , or author , or some other target , by means of humorous satiric or ironic imitation

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Romantic tradition

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Drawn from the work of the brothers Grimm , uses a narrative voice that treats the Tale with respect and awe. , focuses on and sides with the child , the commoner , nature and appeals to empathy and feelings

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Novels

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Specific kind of book. Longer works ,

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Genre

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Vague categories with no fixed boundaries . They are formed by sets of conventions and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions
Ex: fantasy , realism , historical novel, biography, autobiography, informational books

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Foreshadowing

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A means of preparing the reader for events that will come later in the book

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Displacement

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Involves presenting traditional symbols , patterns , characters in more superficially realistic forms .

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Allusion

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A reference to a literary figure , work, event , or object

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Irony

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The recognition that what is said or what happens is exactly the opposite of what is expected. It may refer to a character or to the reader

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Satire

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Human or individual vices , or institutional follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Usually meant to be funny , though the purpose is actually meant to be an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit

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Point of view

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From whose perspective is the story being told

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Static

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Non changing

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Dynamic

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Changing

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Flat

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A character type

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Round

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Many attributes of the character are available

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Foil

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To make one of the main characters look better

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Dramatic plot

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A plot with rising action, a climax, denouement

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Episodic plot

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Several stories held together by common characters or settings

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Parallel plots

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More than one complete plots

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Subplots

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The sense that other stories are taking place

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Style

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Authors had variations of dialogue , vocabulary, sentence and paragraph structure and length, and the use of poetic devices.

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Tone

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Can be applied to a writers attitude toward the material, the subject, or the audience

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Picture book types

Look up in file

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Look up in literary term file

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Picture book

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At least 50% of meaning comes from pictures

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Illustrated books

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Text is more important than the pictures

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George Cruikshank in 1823

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Illustrated first English translation of grimms fairy tales . Also first illustrator of Oliver Twist by Dickens

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Randolph Caldecott

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Often called father of modern picture book- emphasized line and movement in his picture books

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Kate Greenaway

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Illustrated books of poetry for children including brownings The pied piper of Hamelin

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Walter Crane

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With his theatrical background , created lavish and busy pictures for children’s books

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Line

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The most important artistic element, moves the eye around the page , great expressive potential

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Repose

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Horizontal (stability) or a barrier in the vertical

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Space

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Use of space draws ones eyes to shapes generous space may suggest emptiness, loneliness, isolation, or it may give a special emphasis to objects on the page

Lack of space may suggest claustrophobic , confusion or chaos

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Shape

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May elicit emotional response shapes hold your eyes on the page

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Color

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Least important, usually used in traditional ways , (Blue skys, etc) or to suggest emotion

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Texture

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Illusion of giving three dimensional qualities to a flat surface fur, wood grain, etc. often applied to lines to make them appear thick, rough , or smooth etc.

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Composition

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Arrangement of items on a page , tied to space

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Perspective

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As we look at the picture we can talk about point of view

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Design

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The layout of the entire book end papers, type design, etc

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