front 1 Theme | back 1 insight about human life that's revealed in a literary work |
front 2 Story-telling arc | back 2 A classic pattern used in fiction that's guaranteed to satisfy the path a story follows. Exposition --> Conflict --> Rising Action --> Climax --> Falling Action --> Resolution |
front 3 protagonist | back 3 Main character |
front 4 antagonist | back 4 opponent who blocks the protagonist |
front 5 Anti-Hero | back 5 Protagonist is villain of the story but we sympathize anyway |
front 6 Foil | back 6 Character who serves as a direct contrast to another character as a device to emphasize the qualities of the main character |
front 7 POV / Narration | back 7 Vantage point from which a story is told 1st: uses I 3rd limited: focus on one character 3rd Omniscient: all knowing |
front 8 Ethos | back 8 Credible source / your credibility |
front 9 Pathos | back 9 Touches reader's emotions |
front 10 Logos | back 10 Uses logical arguments/facts to prove point |
front 11 Rhetoric | back 11 Method developed by Aristotle to always win an argument |
front 12 Tone | back 12 writers attitude toward character, subject, and audience Tone=Person |
front 13 Mood | back 13 Climate or feeling of a literary work Mood=Environment |
front 14 Archetype | back 14 Original model of a person, a perfect example or prototype upon which others are copied; universally recognized symbol ie: hero, villain, ally, etc |
front 15 Diction | back 15 Words a writer chooses. enunciation of words when and where a story is set by using language native to that time and place New York has different word choices than other states |
front 16 Dialect | back 16 particular way of speaking that is unique to a social class or region New Yorkers pronounce things differently |
front 17 Dialogue | back 17 Words a character speaks |
front 18 Figure of Speech | back 18 Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another; not meant to be take literally |
front 19 Idiom | back 19 A popular figure of speech; always overused/a cliche a phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn't be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words Kill two birds with one stone |
front 20 Satire | back 20 a work that ridicules the shortcomings of a specific people or institutions as an attempt to about change offensive comics on Abraham Lincoln |
front 21 Parody | back 21 A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the original pieces style |
front 22 Interior Monologue | back 22 Narrative technique that records a characters internal flow of thoughts, memories, or ideas thoughts passing through the minds of the protagonists. |
front 23 Soliloquy | back 23 Long speech made by a character in a place wile no other characters are on the stage |
front 24 Aside | back 24 A comment made by a character directly to the audience |
front 25 Simile | back 25 Comparison using connective words such as "like", "as", or "resembles" |
front 26 Metaphor | back 26 Comparison that doesn't use connective words |
front 27 Extended Metaphor | back 27 Metaphor that continues beyond the first comparison sentence. "You're a snake! Everything you hiss out of your mouth is a lie." |
front 28 Symbolism | back 28 Person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself the heart is often employed as a symbol of love. |
front 29 Denotation | back 29 exact dictionary definition of a word |
front 30 Connotation | back 30 Idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its actual definition emotions that come with a single word. “dog,” you might think of a cute little puppy or something adorable |
front 31 Word Choice | back 31 Say what you mean Gets information across |
front 32 Irony | back 32 Discrepancy between expectation and reality whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do. "I'm Fine." - They aren't fine |
front 33 Verbal Irony | back 33 Statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning Im Fine. |
front 34 Situational Irony | back 34 Actions taken that have an effect exactly opposite from what was intended Trying to help but making it worse |
front 35 Dramatic Irony | back 35 occurs when the audience knows an unwitting character is making a mistake Romeo and Julie commit suicide because they don't know about each other's plans. |
front 36 Personification | back 36 When the writer gives an animal or inanimate objects human characteristics |
front 37 Foreshadow | back 37 Use of hints/clues to suggest what will happen later |
front 38 Flashback | back 38 A scene that interrupts the normal narrative timeline in order to provide information about something that happened earlier in the story |
front 39 Hyperbole | back 39 Ridiculous exaggeration a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect “I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.” |
front 40 Paradox | back 40 a statement that appears to contradict itself but upon further inspection reveals a deeper truth, meaning, or joke “Less is more” "This is the beginning of the end." |
front 41 Allusion | back 41 brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature. "Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel." - allusion is to "Achilles' heel" |
front 42 Repetition | back 42 Repeating the same word or phrase for effect "I have to practice my time tables over and over and over again so I can learn them." |