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| giving a nonhuman object human qualities |
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| something known to have existed or to have happened or a truth known by actual expirence or observation |
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| a belief of judgement that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty (not a fact) |
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| the first sentence in a body paragraph |
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| specific details that form the backbone or core of your body paragraphs |
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| your opinion about something |
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| the time and place of the action of the story |
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| the principal character in a story (main character) |
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| one that contends with or opposes protagonist |
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| the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based (prototype) |
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| a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing |
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| a plot in a story is quite simply the things that happen in it |
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| secondary storylines that are seprate from the main plot but happen within the same story EX. in All the Years of Her Life-Alfred's sister getting married |
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| narrarator is a character in the story |
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| third person limited point of view |
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| narrator is not a character in the story and only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character |
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| narrator is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters |
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| when an author tells instead of shows, when an author makes direct statements about a characters personality and tells readers what a character is like |
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| indirect characterization |
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| the writer reveals info about a character and his/her personality through that characters thoughts, words, and actions along with how other characters respond to that character |
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| an event that makes something else happen |
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| an event that makes something else happen |
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| an event that makes something else happen |
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| pronoun that takes the place of the noun and refers to people or things |
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| the noun that the pronoun refers to or replaces |
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pronouns formed by adding -self or -selves to a pronoun
EX. myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, etc. |
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| pronouns that are used to emphasize the preceding noun or pronoun EX. I MYSELF have read many stories. |
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| the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing |
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| something (as a need or desire) that causes a character to do what they do EX. Rachel works really hard in school and studies for everything because she wants to get into Harvard |
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| the author's reason for writing a story/piece of literature EX. to entertain, to inform, to persuade |
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| two or more verbs that work together in a unit EX. may go, can try, could help |
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| the broad idea, moral, or message, of a piece of literture |
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| the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature |
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| a reference within a piece of literature to another work of fiction |
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| language used to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet's sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader |
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| a metaphor which is drawn out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem |
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| the elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images |
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| a division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units seperated by a space |
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| the names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic unit |
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| the pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem |
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| a pair of lines of poetry that are rhymed |
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| composed of 3 lines in a poem that rhyme and each line usually has the same number of syllables |
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| the repitition of the first consonant sound of stressed syllables in neighboring words |
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| the relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds |
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| the close repitition of the same end constants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds |
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| disyllabic foot, unstressed/stressed |
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| disyllabic foot, stressed/unstressed |
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| trisyllabic foot, stressed/unstressed/unstressed |
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| trisyllabic foot, unstressed/unstressed/stressed |
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| any real or imaginary society considered to be perfect or ideal |
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| a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowing |
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| (rhetoric) the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion |
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| (rhetoric) the quality or power in an actual life expirence or in literature of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion |
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| (rhetoric) reason or the rational principle expressed in words or things, argument, or justification |
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| a reoccuring object in a work of literature EX. in the Giver-the sled |
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