Reading Literary Terms Review

What is a theme?

• comparison using like or as

• a symbol or image that recurs throughout the text

• message or lesson the passage conveys

• attitude author takes towards a subject

What is irony?

• contrast between what is expected and what occurs

• author breaks timeline of the story by returning to the past

• motif

• description that brings a picture to the reader's mind

The outcome in the story is opposite of what the reader expects.

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• motif

what is a symbol?

• the atmosphere or feeling the author creates

• author's choice of words

• a hint to future events

• something that represent something else in the story

What is tone?

• author's attitude takes towards a subject

• character that does not change in the story

• comparison using like or as

• sequence of events in a story

What is a setting?

• a hint at future events in the story

• main idea or message the passage conveys

• saying other than what is meant

• time and place a story occurs

Define mood.

• the atmosphere or feeling the author creates

• a poem that has rhyme

• main character

• under-developed character

What is plot?

• the way the author develops character

• a secret message

• a future hint in the story

• sequence of events in a story

What is foreshadowing?

• the way the author develops characters

• a hint to future events in the story

• a symbol or image that recurs throughout the text

What is metaphor

• the atmosphere or feeling the author creates

• comparison using like or as

• audience knows things the characters do not

• comparison NOT using like or as