English literary terms Flashcards
(21 cards)
A similarity or comparison: day is to night or fish is to sea
Analogy
The authors attitude belief, heritage, and tradition are often reflected on to his or her writing.
Author’s purpose
A written account about another person’s life
Biography
Why the character acts,thinks, or feels a certain way
Motivation
The idea of relating the content of a story to your own personal experience
Connecting
A scene from an earlier time that interrupts the action of the ongoing story
Flashback
To show or indicate before hand, to show what might happen in the near future
Forshadowing
Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the readers five senses. Effective imagery gives the reader sensory imagery too.
Imagery
A contradiction of what is stated and what is said or what is expected and what happened
Irony
The most important point the paragraph or story
Main idea
Comparison that does not use like or as
Metaphor
The feeling that conveys the reader
Mood
Made of a event that can be separated into rising action, climax, and falling action
Plot
The perspective from which a story is told to the readers or listeners. This effects the way that the readers or listeners perceive the story.
Point of view
To think of what will possibly happen
Predict
The author’s reason or motivation of writing the story
Purpose
The time,setting, and social standing at which the story occurs
Setting
Comparison of unlike things using like or as
Simile
The message or moral of the story
Theme
The author’s attitude toward the subject
Tone
To see the characters,setting,and conflict take place in your head
Visualization
