Literacy Terms La

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Action Adventure Genre

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Action adventure fiction features physical action and violence, often around a quest or military-style mission set in exotic or forbidding locales such as jungles, deserts, or mountains

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Alliteration

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Alliteration is a pattern of sound that includes the repetition of consonant and vowel sounds. The repetition can be located at the beginning of successive words or inside the words. Poets often use alliteration to audibly represent the action that is taking place.

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Allusion

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A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events.

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Antagonist

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The antagonist is someone or something that deceives, frustrates, or works again the main character, or protagonist, in some way. The antagonist doesn’t necessarily have to be a person. It could be death, the devil, an illness, or any challenge that prevents the main character from living “happily ever after

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Antithesis

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• exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"

• the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance


• Antithesis is the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in “action, not words” or “they promised freedom and provided slavery”)

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myth genre

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a story that has a theme of non-fiction.

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narrative

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another word for story

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new reality

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the new reality is the changes, either external or internal, in the protagonists life after the resolution is complete.

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novel

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long work of prose fiction containing charaters and action potrayeed in the form of a plot.

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what kindof dog is the best?!

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a wiener dog!