Literary Terms ZINC Unit 1

What is personification?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is external conflict?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is foreshadowing?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is verbal irony?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is point of view?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a hint of something to come

• how the narrator is related to the story s/he tells

What is simile?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a comparison that uses 'like' or 'as'

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is internal conflict?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and their own emotions

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is metaphor?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a comparison of one thing to something else that's not related

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is situational irony?

• when something that isn't human is described as having human qualities

• when events turn out the opposite from what's expected or meant to happen

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means

What is antagonist?

• opponent, enemy, bad guy

• a struggle in a story that takes place between a character and an outside force

• a hint of something to come

• when the person speaking says the opposite of what he or she means