Literary Term Review

Tone

• the words a writer chooses
• the path a story follows
• the author's attitude toward the character, subject and audience of a story
• the emotional meaning of word

Personification

• a deep and layered character in a story
• when a writer gives an animal or inanimate object human traits
• the author's attitude toward the character, subject and audience of a story
• anything that is meant to represent or evoke something else, especially a concrete object meant to represent an intangible idea

Denotation

• the climate or feeling of a literary work
• the words a writer chooses
• the exact dictionary definition of a word; the literal meaning of a word
• the emotional meaning of word

Round character

• a deep and layered character in a story
• when a writer gives an animal or inanimate object human traits
• a character with little complexity or depth of personality
• the emotional meaning of word

Symbol

• the words a writer chooses
• anything that is meant to represent or evoke something else, especially a concrete object meant to represent an intangible idea
• the exact dictionary definition of a word; the literal meaning of a word
• the emotional meaning of word

Simile

• anything that is meant to represent or evoke something else, especially a concrete object meant to represent an intangible idea
• a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
• a comparison of two unlike things
• the idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its actual definition; the emotional meaning of word

Mood

• the atmosphere, feeling, and emotion in a piece of writing
• the path a story follows
• the author's attitude toward the character, subject and audience of a story
• the exact dictionary definition of a word; the literal meaning of a word

Story arc

• a deep and layered character in a story
• the path a story follows
• the author's attitude toward the character, subject and audience of a story
• a comparison of two unlike things

Metaphor

• the words a writer chooses
• a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
• a comparison of two unlike things
• the idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its actual definition; the emotional meaning of word

Connotation

• the climate or feeling of a literary work
• the words a writer chooses
• the exact dictionary definition of a word; the literal meaning of a word
• the emotional meaning of word