Review of Fiction/Nonfiction Terms

Figurative Language - Compares two unlike things by suggesting that one thing IS another thing.

Literary Device - an event directly contradicts strong expectations

Lit terms - Events that happened before the story began. Gives insight to readers.

PoV - The Protagonist is also the narrator

Figurative Language - Repetition of consonant sounds. Used a lot in poetry.

Literary Device - the reader knows something a character does not.

All are techniques to appeal to the reader's sense of credibility (ethos) EXCEPT

Lit term - The events that build the tension in the story as conflict is being dealt with.

A group of lines within a poem, kind of like a paragraph in a book

Two lines back to back that rhyme in a poem. Always the last two lines of a sonnet

The narrator of a poem is called the

PoV - The narrator is not a character in the story.

Lit terms - Beginning part of a story where the main characters and situation are introduced.

Propaganda Techniques-is an attack on a person instead of an issue

Lit term - Broad statement about a topic or person drawn from specific information about them.

Propaganda Techniques-Using facts and figures to show one side as positive and the other side as negative.

The use of a word or phrase or situation to be opposite of what the reader would expect.

All are techniques to appeal to the reader's logic(logos) EXCEPT

Lit term - Time and place in which a story takes place

Lit term - Angle from which the author tells the story

Lit terms - Anything in a story that hints to something important that will happen later

Lit term - Language used to create a picture in the reader's mind. Not meant literally

All of the following are characteristics of a Nonfiction text EXCEPT

Figurative Language -An exaggerated statement to make a point. Not to be taken literally.

Figurative Language - Words that capture sounds

Figurative Language -Gives human or living qualities to inanimate (not living) objects.

The author's feelings/intentions create the __________ of the story

Lit terms - Language specifically used to create an impression that appeals to the five senses

Propaganda Techniques- Tries to persuade the reader to do, think or buy something because “everyone” is doing it.

Lit terms - The characters who cause conflict for the main characters to deal with are--

A positive or negative approach to an argument. Person's opinion

Propaganda Techniques-Tries to show that a person/product is good for “ordinary” people because it's “just like you”

Propaganda Techniques-information aimed at positively or negatively influencing opinions/behaviors of large people

Emotion the reader feels while reading.

All are techniques to appeal to the reader's emotions (pathos) EXCEPT

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.