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Details Title: Literary Terms Description: Advanced English I Total Flash Cards: 65 Created: 05/19/2004 17:46:23	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Setting Definition the time and place in which the events of a story, novel or lay occur Term protagonist Definition the central character in a literary work around the which he main conflict revolves Term antagonist Definition a person or force in society or nature that opposes the protagonist or cenral character in a literary work Term First Person Point of View Definition the narrator is a charter in the story..referred to as "I" Term Third Person Limited Definition point of view the narrator reveals the thoughts, feelings and observations of only one character, referring to the characters as "he" or "she" Term Third Person Ominscient Definition the narrator is not a character int eh story but someone who stands outside ths tory and commetns on the action Term Theme Definition the main idea or message of a literary work Term plot Definition the sequence of events in a narrative work (expostion, characters, setting, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) Term conflict Definition struggle between opposing forces ina play or story Term external conflict Definition when a charaacter struggles against some outside force, such as character, nature, society or fate Term internal conflict Definition the narrator struggles agains something within him or herself Term exposition Definition the introduction of the characters, the setting, or the situation at the beginning of a story Term rising action Definition the part of a plot that adds complication to the conflict and increases reader interest Term climax Definition the pont at greastest emotional intensity, interest or suspense int he plot of a narrative Term falling action Definition in a play or story the action that typically follows the climax and reveals its results Term resolution Definition the part of the plot concludes the falling actions by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict Term autobiography Definition the story of a persons life written in the first person point of view Term memoir Definition a type of narrative nonfiction that presents the story of a period in someone's life written in first person point of view Term biography Definition the account of a person's life written by someone other than the subject Term narrative essay Definition relates true stories Term chronological order Definition from the beginning to the ending..no skipping around Term flashback Definition a literary device in which an early episode conversation or event is inserted in the chronological sequence of the narrative Term expository essay Definition explains a topic or the steops in a process, reports the news, or organizes te work of literature Term persuasive essay Definition promotes an opinion Term thesis Definition the central idea or purpose of an essay or other work of nonfiction commonly stated in one or more sentences Term speaker Definition similiar to the narrator in a work of prose, a speaker is the voice that communicates with the reader of a poem Term line Definition in a poem a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence Term stanza Definition in poem a group of lines forming a unit Term meter Definition a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry a predictable rhythm Term internal rhythm Definition occurs at the end of a line Term internal rhyme Definition occurs within a line Term end rhyme Definition occurs at the end of a line Term rhyme scheme Definition the pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem Term alliteration Definition the repetition of sound most often consonant sounds at the beginning of words Term assonance Definition the repetion of similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words, especially a line of poetry Term onomatopoeia Definition the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes Term imagery Definition the "word pictures" that writes use to help evoke an emotional response in readers Term figure of speech Definition a specific device or kind of figurative language Term simile Definition a figure of speech using like or as to compare something seemingly unlike things Term metaphor Definition a figure of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common (does not use like or as) Her eyes were gold dublooms. Term personification Definition a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature or idea is given human characteristics Term narrative poetry Definition verse that tells a story Term lyric poetry Definition poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feeling Term dramatic poetry Definition poetry that uses the elements of drama Term epic poem Definition long narrative poem on a great and serious subject that is centered on the actions of a heroic figure Term nonfiction Definition prose writing about real peole, places and events Term rhythm Definition the pattern of sound created by the arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables especially in poetry Term consonance Definition the repetition of consonant sounds before or after different vowel sounds Term allusion Definition a reference in a work of literature to characters, place, or situations from another work of literature, music, or art or from history Term sonnet Definition a lyric poem of 14 lines almost always written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme Term free/bound Definition poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme length, or stanza arrangement, having any rhyme scheme Term mood Definition feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work Term tone Definition the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work Term What is an example of an omomatopeia? Definition bang! boom!! Term Assonance Example Definition the cat and the hat the boy plays with the toy Term What are the four types of nonfiction? Definition narrative, expository, persuasive, despository Term Narrative Definition tells a story Term Expository Definition explains how to do something Term Persuasive Definition convinces someone to do something Term Depository Definition Uses imagery to describe something Term What are the (five) characteristics of a ballad? Definition 1) sing songy 2) repetitive rhyme scheme 3) long 4) love/death 5) repetitive rhyme Term What are the characteristics of a haiku? Definition 5,7,5-- it was raining hard i was so very happy i played in the rain Term what are the poetry characteristics? Definition ballad, lyric, narrative Term who loves me most? Definition mommy and my sister Term West Side Story Definition based on the plot and the theme of Romeo and Juliet