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Literary Terms and 'Thief' Vocabulary Study

Review literary terms and examine vocabulary from the short story 'Thief' by Robley Wilson Jr. Includes plot types, conflict types, and characterization.

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Literary Terms and 'Thief' Vocabulary Study

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  1. Good Morning!! Thursday. September 11, 2014 Please take out: a writing utensil your notebook And take everything else off of your desks

  2. Word Puzzle TRAIL LAIRT TIALR RTAIL AILTR ITLRA Answer: Trail Mix

  3. Class Objectives • Class Objectives: SWBAT- • Review Literary Terms Part I • Identify literary terms/functions in ‘Thief’ by Robley Wilson Jr. • Read and Annotate ‘Thief’ by Robley Wilson Jr. • Language Objectives: SWBAT – • Apply vocabulary to reading and comprehension of ‘Thief’ • Define and identify parts of speech of vocabulary

  4. Agenda • Review Literary Terms (Part I) • Thief Vocabulary • Thief

  5. Update page 12 in your Table of Contents: Literary Terms Part I We will go through the correct answers. Write down the definitions from the board into your notebook. Now …

  6. The act or process of marking up a text for important information and creating explanatory notes Annotation

  7. A fictional work of prose that is shorter in length than a novel Short Story

  8. The structure of action and events throughout a story. Plot

  9. Plot Type: Chronological In the order of time.

  10. Flashback: a narrative technique that allows a writer to share past events during current events to provide background for the current story Plot Type: Flashback

  11. In Medias Res: the strategy of beginning a story in the middle of the action. The reader enters the story on the verge of an important moment that is not the beginning of the story In Medias Res

  12. Exposition The introduction of setting, situation and main characters.

  13. The action that builds up to the most exciting part of the story. Rising Action

  14. Climax - The turning point of a narrative or the point of highest tension or drama. - When the action reaches a peak.

  15. Falling Action - The events that follow the climax and show the effects of the catastrophe

  16. Denouement/Resolution The events after the falling action in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out.

  17. Conflict The struggle between opposing forces Many conflicts are possible in one story line

  18. Conflict: Man vs. Man When a character has a problem with another character

  19. Conflict: Man vs. Himself When a character has trouble deciding what action to take. Usually deals with morals and deciding between right and wrong

  20. Conflict: Man vs. Society When a character has a problem with the law, school , accepted behavior or any function of society.

  21. Homework: Due Friday 9/12 Personalize your notebook!!

  22. Title page 13 of your notebook: • “Thief Vocabulary” • Don’t forget to update your table of contents!

  23. 1. Cascading Part of Speech: Verb/adjective Definition: To fall, pour, or rush in as if in a cascade. The cascading waterfall was majestic.

  24. 2. Unattached Part of Speech: ADJECTIVE Definition: Not assigned or committed to (a particular task or person) The unattached chain was ineffective protection.

  25. 3. Currency Part of Speech: NOUN Definition: Coins or money that are used in exchange for goods I have a lot of left over currency from many countries.

  26. 4. Deceitful Part of Speech: ADJECTIVE Definition: Having a tendency to be dishonest His deceitful ways caused Marsha to leave him because she couldn’t handle his lies.

  27. 5. Recognition Part of Speech: NOUN Definition: The knowledge that something has been perceived before The recognition in his face told me that he remembered me from last week.

  28. 6. Collision Part of Speech: NOUN Definition: An encounter where energy is transferred The collision caused a massive explosion.

  29. 7. Jostle Part of Speech: VERB Definition: To come into contact, to push into I hate it when people jostle me on the train.

  30. As we are reading … • Please do the following things: • CIRCLE words you do not know • Underline important details • Make notes in margins • Draw brackets around important sections • Write down your responses

  31. Thief by Robley Wilson Jr.

  32. Notebooks Update your table of contents and title page 9: Literary Terms Part 2!

  33. Conflict: Man vs. Himself When a character has trouble deciding what action to take. Usually deals with morals and deciding between right and wrong

  34. Conflict: Man vs. Man When a character has a problem with another character

  35. Conflict: Man vs. Society When a character has a problem with the law, school, accepted behavior, or any function of society.

  36. Characterization The act of creating and developing a character.

  37. Direct Characterization The author directly states the character’s personality traits. “Romeo was wrought with pain”.

  38. Indirect Characterization Readers infer personality traits based on comments and actions of the characters around them. “Romeo could not keep his eyes of Juliet”. -Romeo Describing Juliet

  39. Hyperbole Hyperbole: An exaggeration. Example: I am so hungry, I could eat four pizzas.

  40. Figurative Language Figurative Language: Words used in an imaginative, non-literalsense. Simile and Metaphors Example: His words were the thorns that pierced my heart.

  41. Simile Simile: A comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’. Example: Her eyes are like the stars- boundless and beautiful.

  42. Metaphor Metaphor: A direct comparison that does not use ‘like’ or ‘as’ Example: His eyes were daggers that pierced through my soul.

  43. Imagery Words used to create vivid mental images. These words appeal to the five senses.

  44. Mood The atmosphere or the feeling created in the reader by a literary work • setting • objects • details • images • words

  45. Tone Writers attitude toward his or her subject, characters or audience Example: The poor boy’s responsibilities at home were so great that he did not have enough time to have any fun.

  46. Point of View Perspective or vantage point from which a story is told

  47. First Person Point of View The Narrator is a character in the story and uses the first-person pronoun I. The story is told through the perspective of the narrator.

  48. Third Person Omniscient The narrator knows all and tells what each character feels and thinks. ‘Omni-’ is a prefix that means all.

  49. Third Person Limited Narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character. Everything is viewed from this character’s perspective

  50. HOMEWORK Due Friday 9/13 DECORATE the third blank page of your notebook (before the table of contents). Please have it reflect your: personality passions desires wants needs and hobbies! Use magazines, draw pictures, write down lyrics, and/or glue in pictures!

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