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LITERARY TERMS (Words you must must understand to answer questions on the EOC.)
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LITERARY TERMS
(Words you (Words you must must understand to understand to answer questions on the EOC.)answer questions on the EOC.)
POINT OF VIEW an angle of an angle of
vision from vision from which the which the people, people, events, and events, and details of a details of a story are story are viewedviewed
1st PERSON one of the characters is telling one of the characters is telling
the story the story uses pronouns like uses pronouns like I, me, I, me, andand
we. we.
3rd PERSON OBJECTIVE narrator is narrator is notnot a character a character
and does not know and does not know anyone’s thoughts anyone’s thoughts or feelingsor feelings
3rd PERSON LIMITED narrator is narrator is notnot a a
character, but knows the character, but knows the thoughts and feelings of thoughts and feelings of ONLY ONLY ONE ONE charactercharacter
Aw, Aw, man!man!
3rd PERSON OMNISCIENT narrator is narrator is notnot a character, but a character, but
knows the thoughts and knows the thoughts and feelings feelings of EVERY of EVERY character. character.
RHYME repetition of repetition of
accented accented vowel sounds, vowel sounds, and all sounds and all sounds following following them, in words them, in words that are close that are close togethertogether
I haven’t been to church since I don’t
remember when
Things were goin’ great ‘til they fell apart again
So I listened to the preacher as he told
me what to do
He said you can’t go hatin’ others who
have done wrong to you
Sometimes we get angry, but we must
not condemn Let the good Lord do His job and you
just pray for them I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill
and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you I’m really glad I found my way to church
‘Cause I’m already feelin’ better and I
thank God for the words
Yeah I’m goin’ take the high road
And do what the preacher told me to do
You keep messin’ up and I’ll keep prayin’ for you
RHYTHM
musical musical quality in quality in language language produced by produced by repetitionrepetition
REPETITION repeating repeating
words or words or phrases to phrases to add add emphasisemphasis
ALLITERATION repetition of repetition of
the same or the same or similar similar consonant consonant sounds usually sounds usually at the at the beginning of beginning of words that are words that are close togetherclose together
Sally
Sells
Seashell
s
by the
Seashor
e!
ONOMATOPOEIA Use of a Use of a
word whose word whose sound sound imitates or imitates or suggests its suggests its meaningmeaning
Old MacDonald had a farm,Ee i ee i oh!
And on that farm he had some chickens,Ee i ee i oh!
With a cluck-cluck here,And a cluck-cluck thereHere a cluck, there a cluck,
Everywhere a cluck-cluckOld MacDonald had a farm
Ee i ee i oh!
DRAMATIC IRONY The audience The audience
knows knows something something that the that the character character does not does not knowknow
Oh no! Don’t go up
there!
SITUATIONAL IRONY What What happens is happens is the the opposite of opposite of what we what we expectexpect to to happenhappen
VERBAL IRONY When a When a
person says person says one thing but one thing but really means really means something something completely completely differentdifferent
Today is turning out to be just great.
IDIOM An An expression expression that means that means something something different different from the from the literal literal meaningmeaning“It’s raining cats and dogs.”
METAPHOR A A
comparison comparison of two of two unlike unlike thingsthings
We could have all had more dessert if Matt wasn’t a hog.
SIMILE A A comparisocomparison of two n of two unlike unlike things, things, using using likelike or or as.as.
You know a dream is like a river
Ever changin' as it flows
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores
And I will sail my vessel 'Til the river runs dry
Like a bird upon the wind These waters are my sky
I'll never reach my destination If I never try
So I will sail my vessel 'Til the river runs dry
PERSONIFICATION A A nonhuman nonhuman thing or thing or quality is quality is talked about talked about as if it were as if it were human.human.
"Fear knocked on
the door. Faith
answered. There
was no one there."
(proverb)
"Oreo: Milk’s
favorite cookie."
HYPERBOLE Using Using
exaggeratioexaggeration to express n to express strong strong emotion or emotion or create a create a comic effect.comic effect.
I died laughing.
I tried a million times.
I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.
PUN A play on A play on the multiple the multiple meanings of meanings of words that words that sound alikesound alike
JOKES!
What has four
wheels and
flies?
A garbage
truck!
SETTING timetime and and placeplace of a story of a story
PLOT The series of The series of events that events that make up a make up a storystory
THEME The idea The idea the writer the writer wants to wants to reveal about reveal about the subjectthe subject
TONE The The writer’s writer’s ATTITUDE ATTITUDE towards towards the the subjectsubject
MOOD A story’s A story’s atmosphere atmosphere or the or the feeling it feeling it evokesevokes
ALLUSION A reference to A reference to something well-something well-knownknown
SYMBOL
Something Something that that stands for stands for itself AND itself AND something something beyond beyond itself itself
ALLEGORY A story A story where the where the characters characters and events and events stand for stand for other ideasother ideas
PARADOX Something Something that seems that seems to be a to be a contradictiocontradiction, but really n, but really reveals truthreveals truth
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."(C.S. Lewis to his godchild, Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
PARODY A A comical comical imitatioimitation of n of someonsomeone else’s e else’s workwork
FORESHADOWING The use The use of clues to of clues to hint at hint at events events that will that will occur later occur later in a plot.in a plot.
FLASHBACK A scene that A scene that
interrupts the interrupts the present action present action of the plot to of the plot to flash backward flash backward and tell what and tell what happened at happened at an earlier timean earlier time