LITERARY TERMS HONORS

What appears in these two lines of lyrics?

a group of lines in poetry (kind of like a paragraph); each one features a different emotion or idea

a type of this: when the audience knows something before the character does

"aa" "bb" is a type of this

Which type of character undergoes many changes in a story?

the peak of all the action in the story; the turning point of the story (usually is NOT the middle of the story)

problem between one character and another

all stories have a falling action and resolution (the picture is a BIG hint for this one!)

the voice saying the poem; can be the poet or a fictional character

words that appeal to the five senses

overall message of a story; lesson of the story; stories usually have more than 1 of these

Allegory is a story within a story. It has a “surface story” and another story hidden underneath. Example is below.

uses "he, she, they;" the reader only or mostly “sees” into the thoughts and mind of one character

"From the mountain, From the sea" is an example of this (Anaphora is a type of this)

idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story like “hero” or “villain” or “mentor” that you see in many stories

when the audience knows something before the character(s) do

Similarity of vowel sounds in a line of poetry like "He gleamed with glee" (long e sound is repeated)

used to create a musical quality or to call attention to certain words (alliteration, assonance, rhyme are examples)

a hint of something that will happen later

uses "he, she, they"; the reader sees into the minds of all characters equally or almost equally

patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables that help make the poem flow

repeating a word or line over and over for emphasis

What are the parts of the plot diagram in order?

object that represents something other than its intended meaning

giving human qualities to an animal, object, or thing like "The plane was coughing; smoke leaked from both its lungs"

a reference to another literary work, historical event, or religious story

an interruption in the present time to show a time or event from the past

The picture shows examples of this from Gen Z

character that has very few character traits, if any; they have little to no complex emotions, goals, or personality

the pattern that the end rhyming words follow; in the poem below it is ababcc

"My shoes are killing me" is an example of this

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word like "the bold and burgandy bag" (b consonant repeated)

a comparison that does not use "like" or "as" such as the phrase "green is gold" in the poem below

Bildungsroman is a type of build up to the climax in a story

 error that reverses a protagonist’s fortune from good to bad

the methods an author uses to acquaint you with the characters like seeing how the character acts, thinks, feels

The following excerpt from "Nothing Gold Can Stay" has which of the following?

imaginative descriptions that are not literally true (similes, metaphors, personification are example)