Literary Terms Part One - 9th grade terms

a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or other work

words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm)

a hero in a literary work whose own faults lead to his/her downfall

the way an author writes; the technique which an individual author uses in his/her writing

Buzz, Splash

the feeling created in the reader; usually created by an author's description of the setting

the turning point, the most intense moment

using letters to identify a poem's ___; ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is the ____ of Shakespeare's sonnets

a character that grows and develops during the course of the story

a character who stays the same throughout the story; does not grow or change at all

a feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work

using clues to suggest events that have not yet occurred

using language to appeal to the reader's physical senses

The ___ in which Shakespeare writes his sonnets and plays is iambic pentameter.

a drama with serious subject matter about human suffering and other terrible events

the attitude a writer has toward the audience or the subject

extreme exaggeration

___ is used to replicate how people speak, often different from standard written grammar

a character that has many different traits

how poems are broken up like paragraphs in prose; ex include quatrains, sestets, octaves

the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story

examples of this include the mother, the hero, the mentor, the fool

a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows is true

an author SHOWS what a character looks like, does, and says and how s/he interacts with others

a play such as Julius Caesar or Romeo and Juliet