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25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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Setting |
The distinct physical location and time period of a story. |
When and where? |
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Epigraph |
A optional statement that appears before the text, that comes from a different source. |
You should pay attention to it |
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First person Narrator |
When the story is told from the perspective of a character in the story, can only tell the story group a subjective point of view. |
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Third Person Narrator |
When the story is told from an all knowing sorce that is not a character in the story. |
This is very objective |
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Plot |
The events and actions that take place in the story |
The story itself |
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Theme |
The bigger ideas and underlying meaning of the novel |
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Mood |
The emotional quality in he novel |
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Context |
the events that occur when a quotation is said OR the events leading to a particular event |
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Figurative Language |
Specific techniques used by an author to create ideas or images in mind of the reader |
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Simile |
Direct comparison between 2 nouns using the words like or as |
Figurative Language |
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Metaphor |
Indirect comparison between 2 nouns |
Never Literal.....figurative Language |
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Personification |
When the writer gives human traits to objects or abstract ideas |
Figurative Language |
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Hyperbole |
The use of exaggeration to create meaning |
Figurative Language |
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Allusion |
When a writer makes a reference to a person, place or event that is outside of the story |
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Paradox |
An apparent contradiction |
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Foreshadowing |
When the author gives hints or clues of what is to happen later in the story |
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Irony |
When what occurs in the least expected outcome |
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Iambic Pentameter |
Specific style of lines of poetry |
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Soliloquy |
When an actor is alone on stage and speaks aloud his or her thoughts so the audience gains insight of he characters true thoughts and feelings |
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Aside |
When there are many actors on he stage but two or more have a seperate/private conversation that can not be heard by the other actors. |
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Dramatic Irony |
When the audience knows something that the characters do not |
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Imagery |
Repeated patterns of a specific image |
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Tragic Hero |
Potential for greatness One flaw in your personality that prevents you for attaining greatness His flaw causes his own downfall |
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Alliteration |
When several words in the same sentence begin with the same sound |
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Rhyming Couplet |
2 lines in succession that rhyme through the last word in each line |
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