FINAL Flashcards
It’s a figurative of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
Hyperbole
The use of words likepop, hiss,orboing,in which the spoken sound resembles the actual sound.
Onomatopeia
A play on words that uses the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings.
Pun
A reference within a literary work to a historical, literary, or biblical character, place, or event.
Allusion
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas.
Personification
Verse, Rhythm, Figurative Language and rhymes are important features of this type of literature.
Poetry
A statement that seems contradictory on the surface but often expresses a deeper truth.
Paradox
The association of two terms that seem to contradict each other.
Oxymoron
It’s a comparison between two different things using the words “like” or “as”
simile
It’s a comparison between two different things not using the words “like” or “as”.
Metephor
It is an important message that the readers are supposed to receive and understand.
Moral
It is the author’s attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers.
Tone
- It is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words.
Mood
- The arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up a story.
Plot
- The place or location of the action.
Setting
- The person telling the story who may or may not be a character in the story.
Narrator
- Representation of a person, place, or thing performing traditionally human activities or functions in a work of fiction.
Characters
- It’s the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
- He is the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Mark Twain
- He is the main character’s brother. (The adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Sid Sawyer
- What was Huckleberry Finn carrying when Tom saw him on his way to the school?
A Dead cat
- Who was blamed for Dr. Robinson’s murder?
muff Potter
- What did Tom give to his cat causing a reaction of “chaos and destruction” on it?
a medicine he was suppose to drink pain killer
- What was the name of the island where Tom, Joe and Huck went and stayed?
Jackson Island