Louisiana History Midterm

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The time and place of a story

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Setting

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A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, of idea is represented as a person

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Personification

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A figure of speech containing an implied comparison

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Metaphor

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A manner or mode of expression in language

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Style

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Any literary work protraying imaginary characters and events as a novel, story, or play

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Fiction

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The name of a book, chapter, poem, essay, picture, statue, piece of music, play, movie, ect.

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Title

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Imagination

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Fantasy

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The quality to make something seem funny

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Humor

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A highly imaginative or fantastic kind typically involving some actual or projected scientific phenomenon

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Science Fiction

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A figue of speech in which one thing is likened to another dissimilar thing by the use of like or as

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Simile

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The formation of a word by imitating the natural sound associated with the object or action involved

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Onomatopoeia

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A person who reads a story, play, ect.

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Narrator

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The vantage point from which a story is told

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Point of View

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An ending that is unexpected

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Surprise ending

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Conversation between two of more characters

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Dialouge

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A struggle of clash between opposing characters or forces

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Conflict

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The anxious curiosity the reader feels about what will happen next in a story

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Suspense

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A person of animal in a literary work

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Character

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A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the direct opposite of their usual sense

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Irony

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Exaggeration for effect; not meant to be taken seriously
"i'm dying of this heat!"

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Hyperbole

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Any form of speech considered as deviating from a real of imaginary standard speech

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Dialect

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The most exciting part of a story

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Climax

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The series of related events that make up a story

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Plot

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A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event

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Flashback

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An opinion about a group that does not allow for individual differences

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Sterotype

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The emphasis given to a particular syllable

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Accent Mark

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A rhyming of words within the same line or verse or within two seperate lines

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Internal Rhyme

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Repition of an initial sound

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Alliteration

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A word that corresponds with another in end sound

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Rhyme

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Rhythm in verse

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Meter

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The art, theory, of structure of poems

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Poetry

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A phrase or verse repeated at intervals in a song or poem

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Refrain

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Images that appeal to the senses

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Sensory Images

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poem that tells a story

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Narrative Poem

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a poem that expresses feeling through a song

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Lyric Poem

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A map of a story's structure

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Plot Diagram

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Poetry without regular meter

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Free Verse

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Flow or apparent movement in a work of literature, art, music, ect.

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Rhythm

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Going through a poem using accent marks and cups

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Scanning

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The pattern of rhymes used in a piece of verse, usually indicated by letters

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Rhyme Scheme

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The rhyme that ends a poem

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End Rhyme

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marks that mark an unstressed syllable

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Cups

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Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of the word

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Figuative Language