Terms Flashcards
What is allusion?
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural literary or political significance.
What is mood/atmosphere?
Atmosphere- a type of feelings a reader gets from a narrative based on details such as setting, background, objects and foreshadowing.
Mood- evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Ex: “the river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”
What is connotation?
Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.
Ex: a dove implies peace and gentility.
What is diction?
A style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer. Word choice.
What is colloquial language?
Informal language.
Ex: “what’s up?”
Gonna
What is figurative language?
Language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive, and impactful.
Includes simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, etc.
What is a simile?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between 2 different things.
Ex: She is as graceful as a new born bird.
What is alliteration?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of near or closely connected word.
Ex: A big bully beats a baby boy.
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two thing or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristic in common.
Ex: she is a storm.
What is personification?
A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
Ex: the flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
What is hyperbole?
A figure of speech which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
Ex: I am am dying of shame
What is image/imagery? Aural, olfactory, corporal, gustatory, visual, tactile, kinaesthetic.
To use figurative language to buy present objects, actions and Ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
Ex: it was dark and I’m in the forest.
What is motif?
An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.
What is a symbolism/symbol?
Symbolism: The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meaning that are different from their literal sense.
Symbol: using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is a narrator?
A person who tells a story; in literature the voice that the author takes on to tell the story.
What is characterization?
A literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
What is setting?
Environment or surroundings in which an event or story takes place.
What is structure?
How the piece of writing set up.
What is foreshadowing?
A literary device in which a writer gives advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is irony? Dramatic, verbal, situational
A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that they’re intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
Ex: the name of britains biggest dog was tiny.
What is plot
Literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of the story
What is a protagonist/antagonist?
Protagonist: The central character or leading figure in poetry narrative novel or any other story.
Antagonist: I character or group of characters which stand in opposition to protagonist or the main character.
What is dialogue?
A literary technique in which riders employed to or more characters to be engaged in conversation with each other.
What is a theme?
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly
