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LITERARY TERMS Madalyn Gathright
4/5/11
ELA-1
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What are literary terms?
Literary terms are words that someone might find in reading that are used to help better understand a topic or question.
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10 Terms
•SETTING
•ANALOGY•CHARACTER
•ENTERTAIN
•FLASHBACK•INFER
•PLOT
•SEQUENCE
•Point of View
•STYLE
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An analogy is a comparison of two things.
EX: The little girl’s hair was like gold.
ANALOGY
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A character is a person or animal around which the action in the story occurs, which may or may not be animated.
EX: A classic character is Mickey Mouse.
CHARACTER
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A type of story an author would write about to amuse a reader.
EX: An entertaining story that would amuse a reader today is Twilight. If you’re Team Jacob.
ENTERTAIN
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A flashback is returning to an earlier time is a story to make something become clearer in the present.
EX: When Alice was a baby, she fell off the top of the slide. So now, she won’t even step foot on a playground.
FLASHBACK
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To “read between the lines” and understand what the author really means.
EX: The little girl was crying about the kitten. You can infer that the little girl lost her kitten and is sad because of it.
INFER
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The actions or events in a story.
EX: The three little pigs built houses; The big bad wolf came to town; He was hungry; He ate 2 pigs; the other was safe inside his brick house.
PLOT
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The perspective in which the story is written.
EX: The perspective of Alice and Wonderland is by a third person, or a separate person from the characters.
Point of View
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The order in which events happen in a story.
EX: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the Kings horses and all the kings men couldn’t put humpty together again.
SEQUENCE
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The time and place in which the story occurs.
EX: The time and place of Tom Sawyer is mid-summer in the 1900’s.
SETTING
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The way the story in written.
The style of Twilight is a dramatic love story along with some mild humor.
STYLE
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So, it’s good to have literary terms! Even though we don’t usually think so. They’re always present in our everyday life, especially in reading.