Literary terms & Sound devices Flashcards
A character or a group of characters which stand in opposition or the main character.
Antagonist
A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.
Connotation
Interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative. By using flashbacks, writes allow their readers to gain insight into a character’s motivation and provide a background to a current conflict. Dream sequences and memories are methods used to present flashbacks.
Flashbacks
A writer gives an advacne hint of what is to come later in the story.
Foreshadowing
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inference
A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. Mood is the atmosphere, sparking an emotional response from the reader. (Tone is controlled by the write; mood is felt by the reader)
Mood
The events that make up a story or main part of a story. Consists of the exposition (beginning), inciting, conflict, rising action, climax, and the resolution (or denouement).
Plot
The mode of narration that an author employs to let the reader “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, essay, etc.
1) First person point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we.”
2) Second person point of view employs the pronoun “you.”
3) Third person point of view uses pronouns like “he,” “she,” “it,” and “they.”
Point of View
The central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story.
Protagonist
The author’s own unique way of writing.
Style
An object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant.
Symbol/Symbolism
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.
Theme
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
Tone
The repetition of the same sound occurring at the beginning of words close together in a line r series. (Ex: Slowly clopped through the sludge)
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sound occurring at the beginning of words close together in a line or series. (Ex: Slowly clopped through the sludge)
Alliteration
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines. (Ex: We are/ The youth of the nation)
Anaphora
Is the use of informal words and phrases in a piece of writing. Colloquial usage is conversational and may include regional dialect, vernacular, and slang. (Ex: Y’all, ain’t, lit; entire works can be classified as colloquial, such as The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Colloquialism
The language used by the people from a specific area, class, or other group. (Ex: You making’ fun o’me agin, Mr. Finch?” Mayella Ewell from to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
Dialect
A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing, like a sound effect. Any word or words that help the reader HEAR the sounds or examples of onomatopoeia. (Ex: A gushing stream; whispering voices; murmuring; clacking and clicks on the store)
Onomatopoeia
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. (Ex: Like father, like son; To err is a human; to forgive divine.)
Parallelism
