important literary term vocabulary. analogy attitude author’s craft connotative & denotative...

IMPORTANT LITERARY TERM VOCABULARY

analogyattitudeauthor’s craftconnotative & denotative meaningfirst & third personforeshadowingflashbackinfermoodoutline

paired selectionparaphraseplotsimilestory variantsstylesupporting detailssymbolismthemetone

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analogy-- a comparison of two things

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attitude-- the feelings of a character as reflected in the selection

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The feelings of this character, the chair, are clearly reflected.

author’s craft-- the style, tone and mood a writer uses to convey a message in writing

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Message conveyance.

connotative meaning-- all of the emotions or feelings a word can make a reader feeldenotative meaning-- the dictionary meaning of the word

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first person-- a point of view that includes the author, uses the word “I”

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foreshadowing-- a suggestion in a story of what is to come later by giving hints and clues

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This is a foreshadowing statement. The reader could assume that this cat will do something psychotic in the near future.

flashback-- returning to an earlier time in a story for the purpose of making something clearer in the present

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infer-- to “read between the lines” to understand and interpret the author’s message

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We can infer that some things seen on public transport are mentally scarring.

mood-- how the writing makes the reader feel (happy, sad, upset)

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outline-- a shortened form of a selection in which details and ideas are listed in order

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paired selection-- two stories which are read separately and then analyzed for likenesses and differences in content, theme or issues

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paraphrase-- to convey the same meaning with different words

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plot-- the action or events in a story

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simile-- a figurative comparison that uses “like” or “as”

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story variants-- similarities and differences across texts

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style-- how the author writes rather than what the author writes

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Musical style is very similar to writing style.

supporting details-- ideas that support, or back up, the main idea of a selection

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symbolism-- the use of a concrete object to represent an idea

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(the female hippopotamus symbolized maternity in ancient Egypt and the blue lotuses painted on the side of this figurine represented creation and rebirth)

theme-- a statement about life that a particular selection is trying to get across to the reader

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tone-- the attitude of the author toward the subject, the characters or the audience

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