Literary Terms Flashcards

(31 cards)

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Protagonist

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The Main Character in the story

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Sidecharacter

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A Character who Supports the Story but isn’t the Main focus

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Author

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The Person who wrote the book

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Narrator

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The voice telling the story

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Fiction

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Made-up story that isn’t real

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Non-Fiction

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A story or Text Thatcher Based on true facts

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Literary Text

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A Text meant to entertain or express (ausdrücken) ideas creatively

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Non-literary Text

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A Text That Gives Informations or instructions

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Poem

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A short piece of writing that often User rythm or rhyme

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Play

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A story written to be acted out

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Stage Directions

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Instroductions in a play that tell actors what to do (not spoken about)

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Dialouge/Dialouge-driven

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Dialouge is what characters say to each other. A dialouge-driven story uses lots of conversations to move the plot

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Novel

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A long fictonal story with characters and a plot.

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Types of Novels (7)

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Adventure novel, Fantasy novel, Mystery novel, Historical novel, Romance novel, Science Fiction novel, Cartoon novel

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Young adult literature

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Books written for teens or pre-teens

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Atmosphere

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The feeling creqted by the setting and details

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Mood

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How the reader feels while reading

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Tone

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The author’s attitude towards the story

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Abstract words

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Words that name ideas or feelings you can’t touch

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Concrete words

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Words that name things you can see or touch

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Connotation

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The feeling a word gives you, beyond its basic meaning

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Positive connotation

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Hero
Sounds brave and good

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Negative connotation

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Looser
Sounds mean or insulting

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Genre

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The type of story

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Setting
Where and when the story happened
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Plot
The events that happen in the story
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Theme
The big idea or message
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Characterization
How the author shows what a character is like
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Dialouge
What characters say to each other
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Stanza
A group of lines in a poem, like an paragraph in a poetry
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Rhyme
Words that sound alike, often used in poems