REVIEW Literary Terms, Characterization

A play on words is called a _____________

A comparison that uses like or as is a ____________.

A character that changes throughout the story

He was as large as a giant

Where and when the story takes place is the __________.

________ are ancient symbolic narratives that helped primitive people explain the unexplainable

______________is rhetoric that appeals to credibility or character 

A comparison that doesn't use like or as is a ______________.

The repetition of a word or phrase throughout a poem.  Used for emphasis.

The _______________is the way the story makes the reader feel.

A ____________________ is 2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

When the audience knows more than the characters it is called ________.

The end of the school year is heaven.

Opposite characters that are meant to exaggerate one another's qualities

A character that doesn't change throughout the story

"Harrison Bergeron" is a ___________.

The _________________is the moral or message of the story.

The main character in the story is the ___________________

If we all work together, the world can be a better place.  Mood?

John Proctor and Reverend Parris are

I asked you a million times! 

The writer's choice of words is ________________

___________ is a type of rhetoric that appeals to your emotions.

words and phrases that appeal to the senses

The bicycle couldn't stand alone because it was too tired is a ______.

Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Fiction are all different types of __________

The loaded meaning placed upon words is __________________

The narrator is not a character in the story and only knows everything about one character

A ______________ a seemingly self-contradictory statement that reveals a hidden truth

feeling or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects.

_____________ uses similar or identical structure, sound, meaning, or meter. To create balance 

A(n) ________ is a figure of speech that places 2 contradictory or opposite terms together.

The sequence of events in a story is the ____________.

A commercial showing sick and starving children is using ____________.

__________ is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Words that sound like what the mean are _____________ (Bang, Pow, Pop)

________________ is persuasive language often used in advertisements and other types of writing

Hickory, Dickory Doc / The mouse ran up the clock

_____________ is the way the author feels about their subject

The specific type of literature (fiction, nonfiction...) is called ___________

____________ is a type of writing that uses humor, exaggeration, and irony to critique society

Organized lines of poetry much like a paragraph in prose

She sells seashells by the seashore

An advertisement that lists statistics, straight facts, and evidence is using  

Imagery uses ______________________

A character the audience knows a great deal about

Something that stands for more than what it is 

A(n)____________ is reference to a well known person, place, thing, or historical event.

The dictionary meaning of a word is _________________

Which is the correct format for Constructed Responses?

The difference between appearance and reality is called_________________

When things happen that are the opposite of what you expect to happen.

The world's smartest idiot

The howling wind and screeching crows circled the dark and threatening castle.  Mood?

When the reader must use clues to determine what a character is like

________________ is a specific type of language used in specific regions

A commercial with a famous celebrity having fun and drinking Mountain Dew is using ________.

He crawled into the tiny van with little but the clothes on his back and nowhere to call home

A character the audience knows very little about

Saying one thing but meaning the opposite, sarcasm, is ______________

Theme is a __________________

Narrator is not a character in the story but knows everything about every character

Theme and topic are the same thing.

A _____________ is an extreme exaggeration.

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is called _____________.

The when author directly tells the reader what a character is like

an imitation of another work with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

Narrator is a character in the story and refers to themselves as "I"

The wind whispered through the trees singing a quiet song

__________ is a type of rhetoric that appeals to your reason and logic.

___________ is hints or clues as to what will happen later in the story.