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Literary Terms Review PowerPoint

Literary Terms Review PowerPoint. Second stage of plot; builds suspense and interest. Rising action. Story handed down by generations, usually based on some fact. legend. Imaginative writing where the laws of nature do not operate. fantasy.

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Literary Terms Review PowerPoint

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  1. Literary Terms ReviewPowerPoint

  2. Second stage of plot; builds suspense and interest

  3. Rising action

  4. Story handed down by generations, usually based on some fact

  5. legend

  6. Imaginative writing where the laws of nature do not operate

  7. fantasy

  8. Comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

  9. simile

  10. Dictionary definition of a word

  11. denotation

  12. Scene which interrupts the action to show earlier events

  13. flashback

  14. Characteristic speech of a particular region or social group

  15. dialect

  16. Narrative/story of past events and characters, partly historical but mostly imaginative/fictional

  17. Historical fiction

  18. Human qualities given to non-human things

  19. personification

  20. Reason for writing; writers want to explain, inform, persuade, express, entertain, etc.

  21. Author’s purpose

  22. Writer tells the story and focuses on one character; pronouns “he,” “she,” and “they” are used

  23. Third person point of view

  24. Time and place of a story

  25. setting

  26. Conflict between two elements in a person’s mind or heart

  27. Internal conflict

  28. All the emotions associated with a word: positive, negative, or neutral

  29. connotation

  30. Vantage point from which a story is told

  31. Point of view

  32. Conversation between two characters

  33. dialogue

  34. A writer hints about something that will happen in the future

  35. foreshadowing

  36. Writer tells life story of a person

  37. biography

  38. General message in a literary work

  39. theme

  40. Attitude an author takes toward the subject, characters, and readers

  41. tone

  42. Outcome of the story; loose ends are tied up

  43. resolution

  44. Being at odds with another person, society, or nature

  45. External conflict

  46. Quality in a story or poem that makes the reader tense or uncertain about the outcome

  47. suspense

  48. Writing that tells a story with a theme

  49. Narrative writing

  50. Category of literature (example: fiction, biography, fantasy, drama, etc.)

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