Literary Terms

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Literary Terms

• Mrs. Troy
• Mrs. Cote

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Literary Genres

• There are three main genres in which all
  literature is written
• Poetry
• Prose
• Drama

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Poetry

• Poetry is written in lines and stanzas.
• If I can stop one Heart from
• breaking
• I shall not live in vain
• If I can ease one Life the Aching
• Or cool one Pain
• Emily Dickinson

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Prose

• Prose is written in sentences and paragraphs.
• He smiled back and said, Yeah, thats me.
  His brown face blushed. Why hadnt he said, Hi,
  Teresa, or How was your summer? or something
  nice?

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Drama

• Drama is written in dialogue and stage
  directions.
• Scrooge Cratchit! (As soon as Scrooge shouts,
  the girl and the carolers vanish, and Cratchit
  begins to close up the shop.)
• Cratchit Yes, sir.
• Scrooge Well, to work then!
• Cratchit Its evening, sir.
• Scrooge Is it?
• Cratchit Christmas Eve, sir.
• Scrooge Oh, youll want all day tomorrow, off,
  I suppose.
• Cratchit If its quite convenient, sir.

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Fiction

• Fiction is writing about imaginary characters or
  events it is a story that is not real, one that
  is made up.

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Non-Fiction

• Non-fiction is writing that is true. It involves
  real-life stories about real people.

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Character

• Characters are people or animals that play a role
  in a story.

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Plot

• Plot is what happens in the story it is the
  action, and always contains some kind of conflict.

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Conflict

• Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces.
  There are two main types of conflict
• Internal conflict takes place in the characters
  mind.
• External conflict involves forces outside the
  characters control.

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Setting

• Setting is the time period and the place where
  the story occurs.

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Short story

• A brief piece of literary fiction
• Contains all of the story elements
• Characters
• Plot
• Conflict
• Setting
• Theme

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Novel

• A novel is a longer piece of literary fiction
• It also contains all of the elements of fiction
• Characters
• Plot
• Conflict
• Setting
• Theme

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Theme

• Theme is the central message the author is
  sending the reader. It can be a truth about life
  or a lesson.
• Families come in all shapes and sizes
• It takes courage to speak up for yourself

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Simile

• A comparison of two unlike objects using like or
  as
• The bus bounced along like an empty cracker box
  on wheels. E.L. Kingsbury
• His nostrils flared he was breathing like a
  picadored bull. Jerry Spinelli

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Metaphor

• A direct comparison that renames something in a
  fresh, new way. A metaphor uses linking verbs,
  not like or as
• Her nose was a round, soft blob. Madeleine
  LEngle
• Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her,
  it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in
  the rain. Jerry Spinelli

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Personification

• Giving a non-human thing human characteristics
• The sheriffs rifle belched flame just before
  the whack of the exploding bullet. William H.
  Armstrong
• The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal.
  Madeleine LEngle

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Idiom

• An expression not meant to be taken literally.
• Then Mr. Popper told how Greta had arrived to
  keep Captain Cook from being lonely, and how the
  little penguins had grown, and how the clever
  little band had saved the day for the Poppers
  when things looked bad. Richard and Florence
  Atwater