**9th Grade Lit Term Term 2

The time and place the story takes place

• Setting

• Plot

• Exposition

• Flashback

The feelings associated with a word

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Pathos

• Ethos

a symbolic device in which characters or events in a story represent or symbolize large ideas and concepts like global warming, bureaucracy, racism, etc.

• allegory

• symbolism

• anagram

• analogy

L i s t e n= s i l e n t is an example of this wherein the word's jumbled up parts create a new word. It is a type of wordplay!

• anagram

• analogy

• catharsis

• apostrophe

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process is an example of this

• analogy

• allusion

• metaphor

• hyperbole

When the setting creates an emotional response in the reader

• atmosphere

• climax

• antithesis

• apostrophe

A purging of emotions: the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions

• catharsis

• allegory

• cliche

• apostrophe

A saying that uses so often that it becomes trite

• cliche

• alliteration

• catharsis

• archetype

A writers attitude on their topic

• Tone

• Genre

• Simile

• Onomatopoiea

A category of artistic composition

• Genre

• Simile

• Story

• Plot