Literature Mid-Term Study Guide

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Literature

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Reflects artistic excellence, culture, and permanent worth

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Folk Tale

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A story that has no author and has originality. Has been passed on from one generation to another by mouth.

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Give an example of a "folk tale"

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Legend

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Speech

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To persuade people to act

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Advertisement

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To persuade people to buy something

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Informational Text

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a text that states facts for learning

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Historical Fiction

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fake history that is based in history

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Internal conflict

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arguement with yourself

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External conflict

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arguement with someone else

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Subplot

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a minor storyline that relates to the main story

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parallel episodes

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repeating elements of a storyline

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recurring theme

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the same ideas that are repeated in different ??????

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direct characterization

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the writer tells you about what the character is like

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indirect characterization

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the writer doesn't tell you about what the character is like

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motivation

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why you did something

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moral

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the lesson learned in a story

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motif

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characteristic, image, subject, theme, or idea that repeats in a work

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refrain

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sound, work, phrase or line that repeats in a work

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allusion

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reference to something or someone outside of the work

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figure of speech

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describing one thing in terms of another, not literal

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bias

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one-sided treatment of a subject, often persuasive

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chronology

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in order by event or time

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mood

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the feeling of a work of literature produced by the images and sounds that convey a feeling

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tone

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attitude of a writer toward a subject

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setting

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time and place of a story

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theme

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general ideas or insight about life that a work reveals

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simile

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using "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things

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metaphor

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comparison of two unlike things as if they were similar

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extended metaphor

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comparison that rereveals over several (?) lines of work

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personification

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giving non-human things human qualities

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symbol

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something that stands for something else

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verbal irony

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what is said is really different from what is really meant

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situational irony

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what happens is different from what is expected to happen

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dramatic irony

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the reader knows something that the character doesn't know

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omniscient point of view

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narrator knows everything about the character (?) problems

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third person limited point of view

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narrator focuses on one characters feelings and thoughts

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rising action

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between the exposition (?) and the climax

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falling action

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between the climax and the resolution

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exposition

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first step to the climax

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resolution

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conclusion of the climax

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climax

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the peak - the most exciting, suspenseful, important part of the story