Saturday, August 16, 2014

Literary Terms to Know & Use

For your chosen concept, please complete at least one of each of the following:

  • clear, understandable definitions
  • examples from a familiar children's story (like a fairy tale)
  • examples from a work studied in high school
  • examples from a popular movie, TV show, or other work
  • some sort of graphic illustration to help us remember the concepts (this may be incorporated with an example or examples)

Concepts:
  • conflict (discuss all four types)
  • plot (discuss exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, & resolution)
  • making connections (discuss juxtaposition, foreshadowing, flashback, and allusion)  
  • point of view (discuss the three major types)
  • irony (discuss the three major types & paradoxes)
  • characterization (discuss implicit vs. explicit as well as static vs. dynamic characters and round vs. flat)
  • thematic elements (theme, motif, & symbols, archetypes)
  • author's craft (genre, mood, imagery, & syntax)
  • diction (connotation vs. denotation, oxymoron, & pun)
  • figurative language (discuss simile, metaphor, personification, & hyperbole)
  • sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, slant rhyme, & true rhyme)



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