Literary Terms Review Week FOUR

a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events and relates to events that happened in the past

• genre

• foreshadow

• flashback

• folktale

story composed orally and passed from person to person by word of mouth

• genre

• foreshadow

• flashback

• folktale

clues that hint at what might happen later in the story

• genre

• flashback

• folktale

• foreshadow

a division or type of literature

• genre

• poetry

• prose

• drama

literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

• genre

• prose

• poetry

• drama

a play

• genre

• poetry

• prose

• drama

fiction (novels and short stories) and nonfiction (biography, autobiography, letters, essays, and reports)

• genre

• poetry

• prose

• drama

a character whose actions are inspiring or noble. They struggle to overcome the obstacle and problems that stand in their way.

• hero

• imagery

• antagonist

• character

author’s use of words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses

• personification

• simile

• irony

• imagery