Keystone Lit Terms Final Review

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Keystone Lit Terms

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1
Visual cues on a page of text that offer additional information to guide reader’s comprehension
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Key/Supporting Details
Inference
Informational Text
2
To make judgment or decision based on reasoning rather than direct or implicit statement.
Characterization
Draw Conclusion
Dialect
Cultural Significance
3
Elements of literature that emphasize sound.
Structure of a Poem
Sound Devices
Style
Suffix
4
Give reasons through an explanation to convey & represent the meaning or understanding of text
Interpret
Implicit
Key/Supporting Details
Infer
5
Traits that mark a work as reportorial, analytical, informative, or argumentative
Drama
Elements of Fiction
Dramatic Script
Elements of Nonfiction
6
Tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text (e.g., dialogue, alliteration)
Literary Element
Literary Form
Literary Device
Literary Movement
7
Descriptive/figurative language in literature; use of language to create sensory impressions
Hyperbole
Imagery
Inference
Inference
8
The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject, or the work itself.
Tone
Theme
Syntax
Voice
9
One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning, end, or base of a word
Analysis
Affix
Alliteration
Antonym
10
A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.
Prefix
Simile
Propaganda
Satire
11
Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information.
Informational Texts
Key/Supporting Details
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Inference
12
Text includes literary elements associated with fiction to report on real people, places/events
Key Words
Literary Nonfiction
Metaphor
Main Ideas
13
A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
Characterization
Draw Conclusion
Conflict/Problem
Climax
14
Generally accepted importance ofa work to represent human experience regardless of culture/time
Universal Significance
Universal Character
Theme
Voice
15
The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author.
Tone
Theme
Syntax
Voice
16
Prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices & elements
Narrator
Main Ideas
Key Words
Mood
17
Text that is not fictional; designed to explain, argue, instruct, or describe
Nonfiction
Poetry
Narrative
Plot
18
The comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison (like or as) are used.
Monologue
Metaphor
Literary Form
Motif
19
Text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader
Narrative
Motif
Nonfiction
Poetry
20
A word that is the opposite meaning of another word
Synonym
Alliteration
Affix
Antonym
21
A word that is similar in meaning to another word.
Antonym
Suffix
Synonym
Symbolism
22
Words/phrases in a sentence, paragraph, text, which help reason out the meaning of a word
Climax
Connotation
Context Clues
Draw Conclusion
23
A device in literature where an object represents an idea
Synonym
Speaker
Symbolism
Suffix
24
An extended speech spoken by one speaker.
Monologue
Metaphor
Literary Form
Motif
25
A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true.
Fact
First Person
Focus
Generalization
26
The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem.
Speaker
Symbolism
Suffix
Summary
27
Conclusion drawn from information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic/person
Fact
Falling Action
Generalization
Fiction
28
The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is most intense.
Defense of a Claim
Context Clues
Conflict/Problem
Climax
29
The center of interest or attention.
Focus
Fiction
First Person
Exposition
30
The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Syntax
Voice
Tone
Theme
31
A written account of another person’s life
Author's Purpose
Argument/Position
Autobiography
Biography
32
Part of literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions &resolution of conflicts
Exposition
Falling Action
Fiction
Focus
33
Variety of a language distinct from the standard variety in pronunciation, grammar, or vocab
Defense of a Claim
Context Clues
Dialect
Dialogue
34
Personal point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character.
First Person
Focus
Foreshadowing
Exposition
35
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning.
Context Clues
Dialect
Dialogue
Connotation
36
The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic:
Argument/Position
Bias
Analysis
Author's Purpose
37
A person, animal, or inanimate object portrayed in a literary work.
Biography
Antonym
Character
Personification
38
The author’s intent either to inform or teach , to entertain people, or to persuade
Argument/Position
Biography
Bias
Author's Purpose
39
The position or claim the author establishes.
Allegory
Analysis
Author's Purpose
Argument/Position
40
Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone, mood, or meaning of the text.
Motif
Literary Nonfiction
Main Idea
Key Words
41
A character that symbolically embodies well-known meanings and basic human experiences
Theme
Voice
Universal Significance
Universal Character
42
A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text.
Narrator
Point of View
Nonfiction
Narrative
43
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
Resolution
Rising Action
Setting
Prefix
44
A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts & feelings, spoken aloud by 1 character on stage.
Syntax
Soliloquy
Theme
Tone
45
The generally accepted importance of a work representing a given culture.
Cultural Significance
Climax
Defense of Claim
Compare/Contrast
46
Form of extended metaphor where things are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative
Allegory
Argument/Positino
Affix
Alliteration
47
Process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.
Allegory
Argument/Position
Author's Purpose
Analysis
48
Persuasive tactics used to influence people to believe, buy, or do something.
Motif
Sentence Variety
Resolution
Propaganda Techniques
49
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form
Plot
Personification
Motif
Narrator
50
A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.
Informational Text
Genre
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Hyperbole
51
The part of the story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated.
Resolution
Rising Action
Sequence of Steps
Satire
52
Distinguish, tell apart, and recognize differences between two or more items.
Draw Conclusion
Differentiate
Evaluate
Explain
53
The structure of a story.
Opinion
Point of View
Plot
Narrative
54
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.
Explicit
Evaluate
Draw Conclusion
Explain
55
The author’s method of structuring a text; the way the text is structured from beginning to end
Text Organization
Universal Significance
Universal Character
Theme
56
Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable.
Conflict/Problem
Defense of a Claim
Context Clues
Dialect
57
Examine & judge carefully. Judge or determine the significance, worth/quality of something
Evaluate
Explicit
Explain
Differentiate
58
The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design.
Literary Movement
Literary Element
Literary Form
Literary Device
59
The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, & stage directions
Elements of Fiction
Dialogue
Drama
Dramatic Script
60
Place together characters, situations, or ideas to show common/differing features in literature
Compare/Contrast
Defense of a Claim
Conflict/Problem
Connotation
61
Author’s choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, to help create meaning and tone.
Diction
Differentiate
Connotation
Drama
62
A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark an approach to literature
Literary Movement
Literary Form
Literary Device
Literary Element
63
Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact.
Fiction
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Flashback
64
Use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning
Key/Supporting Details
Inference
Irony
Interpret
65
Various sentence structures, styles, & lengths that can enhance the rhythm/add emphasis to text
Sentence Variety
Opinion
Simile
Prefix
66
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
Satire
Sequence of Steps
Rising Action
Propaganda
67
Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell a story.
Informational Text
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Inference
Key/Supporting Details
68
Though unexpressed in the actual text, meaning that may be understood by the reader; implied.
Inference
Irony
Implicit
Key/Supporting Details
69
To capture all of the most important parts of the original text in the reader’s own words
Summarize
Speaker
Style
Symbol
70
Traits that mark a work as imaginative or narrative discourse (e.g. plot, theme, symbol).
Elements of Fiction
Dramatic Script
Drama
Elements of Nonfiction
71
Beginning of a work providing background information about the character &their circumstances.
Flashback
Exposition
Fact
Falling Action
72
An organizational device used in literature to create expectation of later developments.
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Fiction
Flashback
73
Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning
Symbolism
Synonym
Suffix
Sound Devices
74
The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
Affix
Bias
Antonym
Alliteration
75
A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be preformed.
Satire
Sentence Variety
Propaganda Techniques
Sequence of Steps
76
The portion of the story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved.
Rising Action
Setting
Resolution
Prefix
77
Author’s choice of language, sentence structure, voice, & tone to communicate with readers
Sound Devices
Structure
Suffix
Style
78
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement.
Interpret
Inference
Implicit
Key/Supporting Details
79
The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits and personalities.
Context Clues
Climax
Compare/Contrast
Characterization
80
A personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
Narrative
Motif
Point of View
Opinion
81
To make understandable, plain, or clear
Explain
Explicit
Draw Conclusion
Evaluate
82
A person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something.
Narrative
Narrator
Point of View
Plot
83
An exaggeration or overstatement.
Inference
Hyperbole
Irony
Genre
84
Words that have several meanings depending on how they are used in a sentence.
Opinion
Motif
Motive
Multiple-Meaning Words
85
Position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook
Narrative
Narrator
Opinion
Point of View
86
A playwright’s written instructions about the setting or how the actors are to move/behave
Sound Devices
Symbolism
Stage Directions
Structure of a Poem
87
Perspective that presents the events in a story from outside any one character’s perception
Theme
Tone
Voice
Third Person
88
The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning
Summarize
Structure of a Poem
Style
Sound Devices
89
An essential technique used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme).
Literary Device
Literary Form
Literary Movement
Literary Element
90
Information aimed at positively or negatively influencing the opinions or behaviors of people
Satire
Sequence of Steps
Propaganda
Setting
91
A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.
Motif
Main Idea
Key Words
Metaphor
92
Organizational device to present action that occurred before the current time of the story
Falling Action
Flashback
Fiction
Foreshadowing
93
Author’s central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word or phrase
Metaphor
Main Idea
Motif
Key Words
94
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect/feeling
Fact
Figurative Language
Generalization
First Person
95
A topic or discussion of work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a text
Universal Significance
Voice
Theme
Tone
96
Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning.
Propaganda
Satire
Sentence Variety
Prefix
97
Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work; speech of characters in a drama
Dialogue
Explain
Differentiate
Compare/Contrast
98
The genre of literature represented by works intended for the stage
Drama
Dialogue
Elements of Nonfiction
Elements of Fiction

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Keystone Lit Terms Final Review

98 termsStudBud Administration75 plays

Keystone Lit Terms

Flashcards98 cardsFPractice quizPHost liveL

Questions 98

Answers

1
Visual cues on a page of text that offer additional information to guide reader’s comprehension
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Key/Supporting Details
Inference
Informational Text
2
To make judgment or decision based on reasoning rather than direct or implicit statement.
Characterization
Draw Conclusion
Dialect
Cultural Significance
3
Elements of literature that emphasize sound.
Structure of a Poem
Sound Devices
Style
Suffix
4
Give reasons through an explanation to convey & represent the meaning or understanding of text
Interpret
Implicit
Key/Supporting Details
Infer
5
Traits that mark a work as reportorial, analytical, informative, or argumentative
Drama
Elements of Fiction
Dramatic Script
Elements of Nonfiction
6
Tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text (e.g., dialogue, alliteration)
Literary Element
Literary Form
Literary Device
Literary Movement
7
Descriptive/figurative language in literature; use of language to create sensory impressions
Hyperbole
Imagery
Inference
Inference
8
The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject, or the work itself.
Tone
Theme
Syntax
Voice
9
One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning, end, or base of a word
Analysis
Affix
Alliteration
Antonym
10
A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.
Prefix
Simile
Propaganda
Satire
11
Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information.
Informational Texts
Key/Supporting Details
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Inference
12
Text includes literary elements associated with fiction to report on real people, places/events
Key Words
Literary Nonfiction
Metaphor
Main Ideas
13
A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
Characterization
Draw Conclusion
Conflict/Problem
Climax
14
Generally accepted importance ofa work to represent human experience regardless of culture/time
Universal Significance
Universal Character
Theme
Voice
15
The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author.
Tone
Theme
Syntax
Voice
16
Prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices & elements
Narrator
Main Ideas
Key Words
Mood
17
Text that is not fictional; designed to explain, argue, instruct, or describe
Nonfiction
Poetry
Narrative
Plot
18
The comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison (like or as) are used.
Monologue
Metaphor
Literary Form
Motif
19
Text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader
Narrative
Motif
Nonfiction
Poetry
20
A word that is the opposite meaning of another word
Synonym
Alliteration
Affix
Antonym
21
A word that is similar in meaning to another word.
Antonym
Suffix
Synonym
Symbolism
22
Words/phrases in a sentence, paragraph, text, which help reason out the meaning of a word
Climax
Connotation
Context Clues
Draw Conclusion
23
A device in literature where an object represents an idea
Synonym
Speaker
Symbolism
Suffix
24
An extended speech spoken by one speaker.
Monologue
Metaphor
Literary Form
Motif
25
A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true.
Fact
First Person
Focus
Generalization
26
The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem.
Speaker
Symbolism
Suffix
Summary
27
Conclusion drawn from information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic/person
Fact
Falling Action
Generalization
Fiction
28
The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is most intense.
Defense of a Claim
Context Clues
Conflict/Problem
Climax
29
The center of interest or attention.
Focus
Fiction
First Person
Exposition
30
The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Syntax
Voice
Tone
Theme
31
A written account of another person’s life
Author's Purpose
Argument/Position
Autobiography
Biography
32
Part of literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions &resolution of conflicts
Exposition
Falling Action
Fiction
Focus
33
Variety of a language distinct from the standard variety in pronunciation, grammar, or vocab
Defense of a Claim
Context Clues
Dialect
Dialogue
34
Personal point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character.
First Person
Focus
Foreshadowing
Exposition
35
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning.
Context Clues
Dialect
Dialogue
Connotation
36
The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic:
Argument/Position
Bias
Analysis
Author's Purpose
37
A person, animal, or inanimate object portrayed in a literary work.
Biography
Antonym
Character
Personification
38
The author’s intent either to inform or teach , to entertain people, or to persuade
Argument/Position
Biography
Bias
Author's Purpose
39
The position or claim the author establishes.
Allegory
Analysis
Author's Purpose
Argument/Position
40
Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone, mood, or meaning of the text.
Motif
Literary Nonfiction
Main Idea
Key Words
41
A character that symbolically embodies well-known meanings and basic human experiences
Theme
Voice
Universal Significance
Universal Character
42
A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text.
Narrator
Point of View
Nonfiction
Narrative
43
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
Resolution
Rising Action
Setting
Prefix
44
A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts & feelings, spoken aloud by 1 character on stage.
Syntax
Soliloquy
Theme
Tone
45
The generally accepted importance of a work representing a given culture.
Cultural Significance
Climax
Defense of Claim
Compare/Contrast
46
Form of extended metaphor where things are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative
Allegory
Argument/Positino
Affix
Alliteration
47
Process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.
Allegory
Argument/Position
Author's Purpose
Analysis
48
Persuasive tactics used to influence people to believe, buy, or do something.
Motif
Sentence Variety
Resolution
Propaganda Techniques
49
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form
Plot
Personification
Motif
Narrator
50
A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.
Informational Text
Genre
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Hyperbole
51
The part of the story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated.
Resolution
Rising Action
Sequence of Steps
Satire
52
Distinguish, tell apart, and recognize differences between two or more items.
Draw Conclusion
Differentiate
Evaluate
Explain
53
The structure of a story.
Opinion
Point of View
Plot
Narrative
54
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.
Explicit
Evaluate
Draw Conclusion
Explain
55
The author’s method of structuring a text; the way the text is structured from beginning to end
Text Organization
Universal Significance
Universal Character
Theme
56
Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable.
Conflict/Problem
Defense of a Claim
Context Clues
Dialect
57
Examine & judge carefully. Judge or determine the significance, worth/quality of something
Evaluate
Explicit
Explain
Differentiate
58
The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design.
Literary Movement
Literary Element
Literary Form
Literary Device
59
The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, & stage directions
Elements of Fiction
Dialogue
Drama
Dramatic Script
60
Place together characters, situations, or ideas to show common/differing features in literature
Compare/Contrast
Defense of a Claim
Conflict/Problem
Connotation
61
Author’s choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, to help create meaning and tone.
Diction
Differentiate
Connotation
Drama
62
A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark an approach to literature
Literary Movement
Literary Form
Literary Device
Literary Element
63
Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact.
Fiction
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Flashback
64
Use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning
Key/Supporting Details
Inference
Irony
Interpret
65
Various sentence structures, styles, & lengths that can enhance the rhythm/add emphasis to text
Sentence Variety
Opinion
Simile
Prefix
66
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
Satire
Sequence of Steps
Rising Action
Propaganda
67
Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell a story.
Informational Text
Headings, Graphics, & Charts
Inference
Key/Supporting Details
68
Though unexpressed in the actual text, meaning that may be understood by the reader; implied.
Inference
Irony
Implicit
Key/Supporting Details
69
To capture all of the most important parts of the original text in the reader’s own words
Summarize
Speaker
Style
Symbol
70
Traits that mark a work as imaginative or narrative discourse (e.g. plot, theme, symbol).
Elements of Fiction
Dramatic Script
Drama
Elements of Nonfiction
71
Beginning of a work providing background information about the character &their circumstances.
Flashback
Exposition
Fact
Falling Action
72
An organizational device used in literature to create expectation of later developments.
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Fiction
Flashback
73
Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning
Symbolism
Synonym
Suffix
Sound Devices
74
The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
Affix
Bias
Antonym
Alliteration
75
A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be preformed.
Satire
Sentence Variety
Propaganda Techniques
Sequence of Steps
76
The portion of the story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved.
Rising Action
Setting
Resolution
Prefix
77
Author’s choice of language, sentence structure, voice, & tone to communicate with readers
Sound Devices
Structure
Suffix
Style
78
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement.
Interpret
Inference
Implicit
Key/Supporting Details
79
The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits and personalities.
Context Clues
Climax
Compare/Contrast
Characterization
80
A personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
Narrative
Motif
Point of View
Opinion
81
To make understandable, plain, or clear
Explain
Explicit
Draw Conclusion
Evaluate
82
A person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something.
Narrative
Narrator
Point of View
Plot
83
An exaggeration or overstatement.
Inference
Hyperbole
Irony
Genre
84
Words that have several meanings depending on how they are used in a sentence.
Opinion
Motif
Motive
Multiple-Meaning Words
85
Position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook
Narrative
Narrator
Opinion
Point of View
86
A playwright’s written instructions about the setting or how the actors are to move/behave
Sound Devices
Symbolism
Stage Directions
Structure of a Poem
87
Perspective that presents the events in a story from outside any one character’s perception
Theme
Tone
Voice
Third Person
88
The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning
Summarize
Structure of a Poem
Style
Sound Devices
89
An essential technique used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme).
Literary Device
Literary Form
Literary Movement
Literary Element
90
Information aimed at positively or negatively influencing the opinions or behaviors of people
Satire
Sequence of Steps
Propaganda
Setting
91
A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.
Motif
Main Idea
Key Words
Metaphor
92
Organizational device to present action that occurred before the current time of the story
Falling Action
Flashback
Fiction
Foreshadowing
93
Author’s central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word or phrase
Metaphor
Main Idea
Motif
Key Words
94
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect/feeling
Fact
Figurative Language
Generalization
First Person
95
A topic or discussion of work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a text
Universal Significance
Voice
Theme
Tone
96
Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning.
Propaganda
Satire
Sentence Variety
Prefix
97
Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work; speech of characters in a drama
Dialogue
Explain
Differentiate
Compare/Contrast
98
The genre of literature represented by works intended for the stage
Drama
Dialogue
Elements of Nonfiction
Elements of Fiction