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Literary Terms: MemoirAdvanced English 9
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Point of View
Point of View- method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction
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Point of View
First-Person Point of View- the narrator is a character in the story
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Point of View
Third-Person Point of View- the narrative voice is outside the action; not one of the characters
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Point of view
Third-Person Limited Point of View- the narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observesThird-Person Omniscient Point of View- the narrator is all-knowing; the narrator sees into the minds of all characters
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Devices
Mood- the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
Descriptive words, imagery, and figurative language contribute to the mood of a text
the way the reader feels as he or she reads a story
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Setting
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Speaker
• The voice of the person assume by the author of a poem
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Devices
Style- particular way in which a literary text is written- not what is said but HOW it is said
many elements contribute to style- word choice, sentence structure, tone, figurative language, and point of view
Possible styles include- formal, informal, journalistic, conversational, wordy, ornate, poetic, or dynamic
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DevicesTone- an attitude a writer takes toward a subject
may be described in a variety of ways- serious, humorous, playful, academic, bitter, ironic, etc.
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Voice
• The way in which language reveals an author’s personality, awareness of audience, and passion for his or her subject
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Anecdote
• a brief illustrative account, often based on a personal incident or actual event
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Dialogue
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Narrative structure
Flashback- an account of a conversation, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginning of the story
often interrupts the chronological flow of a story to give the reader information needed for the understanding of a character’s present situation
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Narrative structure
Foreshadowing- writer’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in a storyhints or clues might be included in a character’s dialogue or behavior, or they might be included in details of description
creates suspense and makes readers more active participants in the story
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Audience
• The person(s) meant to see and/or hear the work
VS
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Author
Author’s Purpose- a writer usually writes for one of the following purposes: to express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, or to entertain
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Devices
• Allusion—an indirect reference to a person, place, event, or thing—real or fictional
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Devices
• Cliché—an expression that has become lifeless from overuse
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Devices
Denotation- the literal, or dictionary, meaning of a word
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Devices
Connotation- an attitude or feeling associated with the word
a nuanced significance
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Devices
Diction- a writer’s or speaker’s choice of words
can be described in many ways, including- formal, informal, technical, ornate, plain, abstract, concrete, etc
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Devices
• Dialect—a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
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Hyperbole
• Hyperbole—exaggeration to express strong emotion or create comic effect
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Devices
Imagery- descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the readerappeals to one of the five senses- sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
helps the reader imagine exactly what is being described
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Devices
• Pun—a phrase that deliberately confuses similar-sounding words for humorous effect
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Device
• Rhetorical question—a question that is not actually meant to be answered
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Device• Sarcasm—a
particularly cutting remark, sometimes ironic, in which praise is used tauntingly to indicate it is opposite in meaning; intended to wound
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Devices
• Simile— comparing two things using like or as
• Ex. Nir is as quiet as a mouse.
• Metaphor— comparing two or more unlike things without using like or as
• Ex. I aced the test; I hit it out of the park.
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Devices
Symbol- a person, place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself
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Devices
Syntax- arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses into sentences.
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Devices
• Understatement—a figure of speech that says less than what it really meant or says something with less force than is appropriate
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Roman a clef
• Roman a clef- French for novel with a key, is a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction
• The “key” is the relationship between nonfiction and fiction
• Ex. Fictitious names
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