Finals- Lit Terms #1

The art of using persuasive techniques; used in writing or speaking

The author's attitude or feeling toward a person, a thing, a place, event or situation

When you must infer a character’s traits based on context clues.

How an audience feels; The author does this by selecting words that will evoke a certain emotion or feeling

Prose literature, such as short stories and novels, about imaginary events and people

When a character fights another force or character, that is called "External Conflict."

The events building toward the climax

When the audience knows something that the character in the story doesn't know is called ________ irony.

A person who is suffering through depression is have an internal conflict.

This provides sentence fluency and is the repetition of the same grammatical structure in a sentence.

Text evidence that requires quotation marks.

Using symbols to represent ideas/qualities is called "Symbolism"

Clues that lead the reader to predict what will happen later in the story

Dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending is a "Comedy"

The reason an author writes what they do; PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain)

A rhetorical device that involves repeating the same grammatical structures within a sentence.

"She got ran over by an ambulance!" is an example of ______ irony.

"I LOVE when my parents nag me to do the dishes!" is an example of verbal irony.

When the author gives you direct words to describe a character.

Prose with dialogue, characterization and a plot line; intended to be performed on stage