midterm review. do you remember the meaning of these terms? allusion conflict dialect dialogue...
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Literary Terms
MIDTERM REVIEW
Do you remember the meaning of these terms?
• Allusion• Conflict• Dialect• Dialogue• Fiction• Flashback• Folktale• Foreshadowing• Irony• Myth• Novel
• Plot• Nonfiction• Point of View• Setting• Short Story• Suspense• Personification• Simile
• If you don’t remember most of them you should study your notes (notebook)!!!!!!!
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Allusion
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports or science.
Example 1: That basketball players can jump so high you would have thought he was Muggsy Bogues.Example 2: When the power failed, the subway station became a dark and dismal underworld.
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Conflict
A struggle or clash between opposing character or opposing
forces. Internal conflict- a struggle within the character’s mindExternal conflict- a character struggles against another character.
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Dialect
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.
“YOU MEAN YOU AIN’T GOT NO FIELDS TO RASIE NOTHING IN?”
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Dialogue
A conversation between two or more characters.
"'How are you?' I said."'As you see,' old Hernandez said, and he pushed his
cap back on his forehead and smiled, 'alive.'"(Martha Gellhorn, "The Third Winter," 1938)
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Fiction and NonfictionA prose account that is made up rather than true.
Science Fiction
Little Red Riding Hood
Prose writing that deals with real people, places and events without changing any facts.
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SettingThe time and location a story
takes place.
What is the time and place of this photo?
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Flashback
is action that interrupts a story to show an event that happened at an earlier time
Example : dreams, memories, and stories told by the narrator or a character.
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Folktale
A story with no know author that
originally was passed down from
generation to generation by
word of mouth or orally.
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Foreshadowing
is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a piece of literature.
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Irony
The differences between what is said or done and what is expected or really
meant.Three kinds of irony:
1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.
2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.
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Novel and Prose
A fictional story that is usually more than one
hundred book pages long.
Language of everyday speech and writing. In
paragraph form.
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Myth
A story that explains something about the world and typically
involves gods or others supernatural
beings.
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Plot and Climax
The series of related events hat make up a story.
The high point or most exciting moment in a story.
Plot Diagram
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Point of View
The vantage point from which a story is told.
Third Person First Person
Omniscient View
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Short Story
A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty pages long.
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Personification and Simile
is giving human qualities to animals or objects. Example:
a smiling moon, a jovial sun
ANDis the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
Example:He eats like a pig.
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Suspense
The uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will
happen next in a story.
Reading Strategies•Cause and Effect
•Main Idea
•Supporting Details
•Compare and Contrast
•Making Predictions
• Sequence
•Context Clues
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Cause and EffectA cause is the event that makes something
happen. An effect is what happens as a result of the cause.
Cause
Effect
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Predictions
Making an educated guess about what is going to
happen next in a story. A prediction is based on
prior knowledge or your own personal experience.
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Compare and Contrast
To compare is to find how
something is alike and comparison is
to find how something is
different.
Subject 1
Subject 3
Subject 2
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Supporting Details
Details in a story that backs up or
supports the main ideas.
Main Idea
Supporting Details
Supporting Details
Supporting Details
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Context Clues
Use surrounding words in a paragraph or sentence to help define the meaning of a n unknown word.
Word
Clues
Meaning
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Main Idea
The most important idea expresses in a story. What the story is mostly or
mainly about.
Main Idea
Details
Details
Details
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Sequence
the order in which things or events happen in time. One event after the other.
Last Event
2nd Event
1st event