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Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One  Select a location. Literary Terms 1KLiterary Terms 4NLiterary Terms 3M Literary Terms 4YLiterary Terms 5ELiterary Terms 6E Literary Terms 7ELiterary Terms 8YLiterary Terms 9E Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One -  A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike.  Analogy Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  An individual in a story or play. Ex=Even if the character is an animal or a god, like in Roman or Greek myths, it must have human traits.  Character Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. Aphorism BANKGAS STATIONGYM LIBRARYPOST OFFICEDOCTOR’S OFFICE MUSIC STOREGROCERYPET SHOPPE Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  The writer tells us directly who it is and we figure out what the personality is. First method when revealing.  Direct characterization Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  A very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages. Ex. Character, plot, and image, etc.  Archetype Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  One who does not change in the course of a story.  Static characterization Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  One of the four forms of discourse, which uses reason and emotional appeals to convince a reader to think or act in a certain way.  Persuasion Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  Changes in some important way as a result of the story’s action.  Dynamic characterization Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round One –  A method of examining the unconscious mind, developed primarily by the Austrian physician Freud.  Psychoanalysis Go To Round Two

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two  Clear the boxes and select a location. Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two -  A story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful.  Romance Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  Having few personality traits.  Flat characterization Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  An elaborate metaphor or other figure of speech that compares two things that are startlingly different. Ex= In American literature the poems of Emily Dickinson are known for their conceits.  Conceit Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  Having more dimensions to their personalities, are complex, just as real people are.  Round characterization Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two – The conclusion (or resolution) of a story. Ex= many Modern Fiction ends without denouement, leaving the reader with a sense of incompleteness, such as life does itself.  Denouement Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. Ex= In “To Build a Fire”, for example, Jack London places hints throughout the text that foreshadows the story’s conclusion.  Foreshadowing Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened in an earlier time.  Flashback Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications.  Pun Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Two –  A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and that is not meant to be taken literally. Ex= “He is a pain in the neck.”  Figure of speech Go To Round Three

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three  Clear the boxes and select a location. End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three -  A discrepancy between appearances and reality.  Irony End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  “To Build a Fire” is that a man is struggling for survival in extremely low temperatures.  Conflict End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  Occurs when someone means one things but really means another. “War is Kind” when Stephen Crane tells us. “Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbles in the yellow trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped and died, Do not weep. War is kind”  Verbal irony End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  “To Build a Fire” is that the man falls asleep and dies in the snow, while the dog goes to the camp the man was looking for.  Resolution End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  A discrepancy in about what is expected to happen. “A mystery of Heroism” in which a soldier risks his life to get water that is then spilled.  Situational irony End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  One character in the play thinks one things is true, but audience knows better. “The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County” when we the reader knows that the stranger filled Dan’l Webster with Birdshot so he was too heavy to jump because throughout that whole frog jumping competition Jim was completely unsuspicious about anything fishy going on until the stranger left town.  Dramatic irony End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  “Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?” Form “Beat! Beat! Drums!  Rhetorical question End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  “Mother whose heart hung humble as a button” This line from War is Kind  Simile End Game

Click to edit Master title style  Click to edit Master text styles O’sX’s QA Round Three –  Other five methods. When used we have to exercise our own judgment and put clues together to get answer.  Indirect characterization End Game

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