Literary Terms
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FICTION
- Written stories about people and events that are not real
- Tuck Everlasting is a fiction book.
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NONFICTION
- Writing that. Is about facts or real events
- The New Nation by Joy Hakim is a nonfiction history book.
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BIOGRAPHY
- The story of a real person's life written by someone other than that person
- An example of a biography would be the book, Steve Jobs.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- A non fiction story written about someone's life by that person
- An example would be, The Diary Of A Young Girl, by Anne Frank herself.
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POETRY
- The writings of a poet
- There Will Come Soft Rains is a poem from the book with the same title.
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PROSE
- Writing that is not poetry
- Basically a poem that is explained in paragraph form, or a book.
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CONFLICT
- A struggle for power, property, etc.
- There was conflict within Winnie on whether she should live forever or not.
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CHARACTERIZATION
- The act of describing the character or qualities of someone or something
- Winnie had an easy time of characterizing the Tuck's.
DIRECT
- To cause something to turn, move, or point in a particular way
- She directed herself towards the wood.
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FLAT
- Having a smooth, level, or even surface
- The rock was very flat.
STATIC
- Showing little or not change, action, or progress
- Winnie's change in thought was not static.
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DYNAMIC
- Always active or changing
- Charlie was dynamic because he was not intelligent, intelligent, and smart.
FOIL
- To prevent from attaining an end
- He tried to foil my plan of taking over the world.
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ANTAGONIST
- A person who opposes another person
- The man in the yellow suit is an antagonist.
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PROTAGONIST
- The main character in a movie, book, play, etc.
- Winnie was the protagonist in Tuck Everlasting.
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SETTING
- The place and conditions I which something happens or exists
- Treegap was the setting in Tuck Everlasting.
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THEME
- The main subject that that is being discussed or described
- Tuck Everlasting had many different themes.
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TONE
- Manor of expression in wringing or speaking
- The tone of the robot's voice in There Will Come Soft Rains was calm.
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SYMBOLISM
- Artistic in poetic movement or style using symbols to express ideas, etc.
- The toad in Tuck Everlasting was a sign of symbolism.
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IRONY
- The use of words that mean the opposite of what you think.
- In The Landlady, there was irony when it said the inn was a good place to go.
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FORESHADOWING
- To suggest something that has not yet happened
- In The Landlady, the author foreshadows that Billy would die.
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ALLUSION
- A statement that refers to something without directly mentioning it
- In There Will Come Soft Rains, there were three allusions.
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BIBLICAL
- Relating to, taken from, or found in the Bible
- Winnie's answers to her problems could be found in the Bible.
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LITERARY
- Of or relating to literature
- All the books we have read are literary.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/ IMAGERY
- Pictures or photographs
- The imagery in Flowers For Algernon were informational.
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METAPHOR
- A word or phrase used to identify similarities between things
- Most of the books that we have read included metaphors.
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