What is it called when an author directly tells the reader what the character's personality or physical traits are?
Direct Characterization
The way the writing makes the reader feel.
Mood
How the conflict is resolved
Resolution
______ is the way the author expresses their attitude through their writing. It can change very quickly, or may remain the same throughout the text. It is expressed by the language the author uses.
Tone
The part of the plot diagram where the most intense part of the story occurs
Climax
What is it call when you quote, paraphrase, summarize, and/or make a reference to information from articles/texts to support your answer or thinking?
Citing textual evidence
When the narrator participates in the story
First-person point of view
When we make an educated guess based on the provided information.
Inference
Where and when the story takes place. This can positively or negatively impact characters
Setting
This interrupts the flow of a story to tell readers about an event that happened previously.
Flashback
When the writer uses their own words to express another person's ideas, still giving the other person credit.
Paraphrasing
This helps an author build suspense by hinting at what’s to come. These hints are usually less obvious the first time you read something but become very apparent when you reread.
Foreshadowing
This is when you use language that’s seemingly contradictory to what you mean. This is often expressed as sarcasm or hyperbole. Examples: “That explanation was as clear as mud.” (Sarcasm)
Verbal Irony
This figurative language device compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”
Simile
The person or character telling the story.
Narrator
_____________ is language that uses the five senses: touch, taste, smell, sound, and sight. This can include figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification). It allows the reader to have mental pictures.
Imagery
Part of the plot diagram where the conflict develops and intensifies.
Rising Action
When the narrator directly speaks to the reader
Second-person point of view
If a question asks you to make or draw a __________, it is asking you to make an inference (an educated guess) based on the clues you have read. The answer will not be in the text. You have to use clues to make an educated guess.
Conclusion
Part of the plot diagram where a series of events leads to the resolution.
Falling Action
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two very different things, without using the terms “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
This is a phrase that has a meaning different from the actual words, used commonly by a group of speakers. "It's raining cats and dogs."
Idiom
When an author gives human traits to objects. "The leaf danced in the wind."
Personification
What is the character's personality revealed by physical appearance, actions, inner thoughts, reactions, and speech called?
Characterization
when the narrator tells the story, but one character's perspective is given in the story
Third-person limited
The objective restatement of the essential ideas or major points in a text
Summary
This is the non-literal meaning of a word or phrase. Examples include: Hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, personification, simile, symbol, etc.
Figurative meaning/language
_________ ________ are hints that an author gives the reader to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue may appear within the same sentence or surrounding sentences. Common clues: Definition, synonym (same), antonym (opposite), i
Context Clues
What is it called when you state something in your writing that is considered a truth or position
Claim
What is it called when you directly quote another person's words?
Direct Quote/Direct Citation
The use of words that sound like what they refer to: Clap, bang, thud, crash
Onomatopoeia
What form of irony involves the reader or audience having knowledge about the situation whereas the characters do not?
Dramatic Irony
When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ALL the characters in the story
Third-person omniscent
a literary method where an author reveals a character's personality through their actions, speech, thoughts, affect on others, and appearance, rather than by explicitly stating their traits.
Indirect characterization
Animals, people, and/or creatures in stories who take part in the action
Character
What is the moral or lesson of a text called?
Theme
What is a struggle between two opposing forces in a story or play called? Examples are: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Technology, Man vs. Self
Conflict
The repetition of initial consonant sounds: Sally sold the seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
The part of the plot diagram where the conflict is resolved.
Resolution
The beginning of the fictional text where the characters and setting are introduced and begin to develop.
Exposition
When something happens that is different than what is expected
Situational Irony
This is the structure of a fictional text that includes the exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Plot
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