My momma always said: 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get' .
Simile
The muggle word and the wizarding world existing side-by-side in Harry Potter
Juxtaposition
A reflection of the writer's (or character's) attitude in a text
Tone
The supermarket is on Wall Street, two blocks from here.
Denotation
After the most exciting point in the story, when things slowly start settling down
Falling action
"I have a bad feeling about this"... right before the character enter the creepy basement in a horror movie.
Foreshadowing
The first part of a story, where we meet the characters and get to know the setting. Before something happens that upsets the status quo.
Exposition
The thing that happens to upset the status quo and send the characters on their journey.
Inciting incident
The events that make up a work of fiction in chronological order (i.e. Harry Potter is born a wizard, his parents are killed, he's left to live with the Dursleys, etc.)
Story
When a character only has one major character trait and is not developed much beyond that. Example: Harry Potter's Crabbe and Goyle (Malfoy's friends)
Flat character
The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their descent to the ground.
Imagery
You better watch out / you better not cry / you better not pout / I’m telling you why
Anaphora
The emotions evoked through a story
Mood
Gee, thanks Einstein!
Allusion
"The cat sat by the empty food bowl and looked at her with a hard stare.” vs. “The cat stalked over to the barren food bowl and leveled her with a baleful glare.”
Diction
Fear gripped the patient waiting for the diagnosis
Personification
The perspective from which the story is being told
Point-of-view
To infinity... and beyond!
Hyperbole
It happened again and again and again. I couldn't stop it
Repetition
The person or character who is telling the story
Narrator
Quick Question
Alliteration
A lesson learned from a story, like 'be yourself' or 'don't judge a book by its cover'
Moral
I woke up in a sweat. I knew I had just awoken from a terrible dream, although I couldn't quite recall it.
First-person narration
The way the story events are sequenced and told (i.e. Harry Potter grows up being neglected by the Dursleys, finds out he's a wizard)
Plot
Harry Potter or The Lion King's Simba
Protagonist
When the author uses tension to create an ominous feeling of anticipation in the reader
Suspense
My sister's new boyfriend is very Wall Street
Connotation
Harry Potter's Lord Voldemort or The Lion King's Scar
Antagonist
A marriage counselor files for divorce
Irony
The final part of the story, in which things either return to the status quo, or a new status quo is reached
Resolution
After something has upset the status quo, things get more and more intense in the story
Rising action
Love is a battlefield
Metaphor
She woke to the sound of her alarm clock. It was six o'clock already. She jumped out of bed and got dressed.
Third-person narration
When a character remembers something that happened at an earlier point in time
Flashback
A complex character that is fully developed, like Harry Potter or Lord Voldemort
Rounded character
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
Paradox
“As the campers settled into their tents, Zara hoped her eyes did not betray her fear, and Lisa silently wished for the night to quickly end”
Omniscient narrator
A struggle between two opposing forces
Conflict
You are probably wondering how this all began. Let me tell you.
Second-person narration
All of a sudden, I heard a buzzing sound
Onomotopoeia
I am a deeply superficial person
Oxymoron
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
Assonance
Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Westeros, the Multiverse, the Middle Ages, a dystopian future or high school
Setting
Oops. Did I say that out loud?
Rhetorical Question
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