Literary Terms

MIDTERM REVIEW

Do you remember the meaning of these terms?

• Allusion• Conflict• Dialect• Dialogue• Fiction• Flashback• Folktale• Foreshadowing• Irony• Myth• Novel

• Plot• Nonfiction• Point of View• Setting• Short Story• Suspense• Personification• Simile

• If you don’t remember most of them you should study your notes (notebook)!!!!!!!

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Allusion

A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports or science.

Example 1: That basketball players can jump so high you would have thought he was Muggsy Bogues.Example 2: When the power failed, the subway station became a dark and dismal underworld.

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Conflict

A struggle or clash between opposing character or opposing

forces. Internal conflict- a struggle within the character’s mindExternal conflict- a character struggles against another character.

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Dialect

A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.

“YOU MEAN YOU AIN’T GOT NO FIELDS TO RASIE NOTHING IN?”

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Dialogue

A conversation between two or more characters.

"'How are you?' I said."'As you see,' old Hernandez said, and he pushed his

cap back on his forehead and smiled, 'alive.'"(Martha Gellhorn, "The Third Winter," 1938)

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Fiction and NonfictionA prose account that is made up rather than true.

Science Fiction

Little Red Riding Hood

Prose writing that deals with real people, places and events without changing any facts.

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SettingThe time and location a story

takes place.

What is the time and place of this photo?

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Flashback

is action that interrupts a story to show an event that happened at an earlier time

Example : dreams, memories, and stories told by the narrator or a character. 

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Folktale

A story with no know author that

originally was passed down from

generation to generation by

word of mouth or orally.

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Foreshadowing

is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a piece of literature.

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Irony

The differences between what is said or done and what is expected or really

meant.Three kinds of irony:

1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.

2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.

3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.

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Novel and Prose

A fictional story that is usually more than one

hundred book pages long.

Language of everyday speech and writing. In

paragraph form.

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Myth

A story that explains something about the world and typically

involves gods or others supernatural

beings.

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Plot and Climax

The series of related events hat make up a story.

The high point or most exciting moment in a story.

Plot Diagram

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Point of View

The vantage point from which a story is told.

Third Person First Person

Omniscient View

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Short Story

A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty pages long.

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Personification and Simile

is giving human qualities to animals or objects. Example:

a smiling moon, a jovial sun

ANDis the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

Example:He eats like a pig.

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Suspense

The uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will

happen next in a story.

Reading Strategies•Cause and Effect

•Main Idea

•Supporting Details

•Compare and Contrast

•Making Predictions

• Sequence

•Context Clues

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Cause and EffectA cause is the event that makes something

happen. An effect is what happens as a result of the cause.

Cause

Effect

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Predictions

Making an educated guess about what is going to

happen next in a story. A prediction is based on

prior knowledge or your own personal experience.

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Compare and Contrast

To compare is to find how

something is alike and comparison is

to find how something is

different.

Subject 1

Subject 3

Subject 2

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Supporting Details

Details in a story that backs up or

supports the main ideas.

Main Idea

Supporting Details

Supporting Details

Supporting Details

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Context Clues

Use surrounding words in a paragraph or sentence to help define the meaning of a n unknown word.

Word

Clues

Meaning

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Main Idea

The most important idea expresses in a story. What the story is mostly or

mainly about.

Main Idea

Details

Details

Details

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Sequence

the order in which things or events happen in time. One event after the other.

Last Event

2nd Event

1st event