English Terms

What is mood? 

• Feeling the author's diction evokes on the reader 
• Author's feeling toward the subject. 
• The way I make people feel. 
• Feeling, emotion, or idea a work evokes on the reader.

Tone is 

• The way someone speaks to others. 
• Author's word choice. 
• The author's feeling toward the subject.
• The way something makes you feel. 

Connotation 

• Stories that are not true. 
• Feeling, emotion, or idea a word evokes on the reader. 
• Dictionary definition.
• Humor, irony, exaggeration. 

Denotation 

• Dictionary definition. 
• Feelings a word give you. 
• Author's word choice. 
• Background Information

Order of the plot-line is 

• Inciting Incident, Resolution, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Exposition
• Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
• Exposition, Action Rising,  Inciting Incident, Falling Action, Climax, Resolution  
• Resolution, Climax, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution 

Fiction is...

• Autobiographical writing. 
• Journals, news articles, historical novels.
• Stories that are true.
• Stories that are not true.

Dialogue is 

• conversation between two or more people. 
• A character that is speaking into a audience. 
• A character speaking to themselves. 
• a change that is a result or consequence of an action. 

Dramatic Irony

• Writing in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama that tells a story
• A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
• A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
• A struggle involving a conflict within a character

Idiom

• An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience
• The general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
• The speaker or character who tells a story and directs the type and amount of information the writer reveals
• An expression that is not meant to be taken literally but has a meaning for the speakers of a particular language

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Metaphor

• A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
• The use of anything that has its own meaning and reality but also represents abstract ideas
• An expression that is not meant to be taken literally but has a meaning for the speakers of a particular language
• A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true