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Christian Scibona’s Literary Term Project: Travel

Alliteration- The repetition of consonant sounds at the begging of words Ex: Let’s go to New York, lets go to Las Vegas, lets go to Myrtle Beach

Allusion- An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event. Ex: The pilot told a story about the Wright brothers

Antagonist- Is usually the principal character in opposition. Ex: The security guard kept me in line at the airport for a long time Protagonist- Main Character Ex: The pilot, train driver, driver, or captain is the person who gets you to your destination

Aside- A dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud Ex: The person behind me in the line talked about how service was slow

Author’s Purpose- An author’s beliefs and attitudes as expressed in his or her writing. Ex: the captain of the cruise ship ran it the way he wanted to

Blank Verse- Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter Ex: The truck driver like the road, he liked to go state by state Character- One of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish and individual Ex: I am dying to go back home

Characterization- The methods that a writer uses to develop character Ex: I am not a patient person at airports

Climax- the moment that catches the readers interest Ex: I was sleeping in the car and I felt the veer off the road and crash

Conflict- External conflict- a character pitted agenized an outside force Ex: The traffic was so bad we would never get back home

Connotation- emotions you associate with a word Ex: I want to go already the person cried

Denotation- literal or dictionary meaning of a word Ex: A redeye flight is a late flight Dialect- Spoken by members of an identifiable regional group, nation, or social class Ex: When we went to England we could hardly understand what they were saying

Dialogue- conversation between two people Ex: While driving to another state I and my friend talked the whole way

Diction- Choice of words in a literary work Ex: The cruise ship was so fun

Dramatic Monologue- a kind of poem in which a single fiction or historical character than the poet speaks to an audience of more than one persons. Ex: The train driver liked to tell us stories about old train drivers

Epic- a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes Ex: One of the workers on the cruise ship told me about a person who saw someone fall overboard and threw a life vest to him

Extended Metaphor- continues the sentence that follows Ex: A cruise ship is fun, I don’t ever want it to end, and when it ends I wont be able to take it

Flashback- an earlier event is inserted into a normal chronological order of a narrative Ex: The pilot was remembering when he was in aviation school

Foil- a character in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character in order to highlight the distinctive temperament of that character Ex: The family traveled to another state

Foreshadowing- A writers use of hints of clues to indicate events situation that occur later in a plot Ex: The pilot said I don’t like the look of those clouds

Free Verse- Poetry that does not contain a regular pattern of rhyme and meter Ex: The cruise ship was fun, it was so big and tall, It was the best place in the world

Hyperbole- A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect Ex: The plane was a million feet in the air

Idiom- An expression that has meaning of its individual words Ex: Those clouds are raining cats and dogs said the pilot Imagery- Consist of descriptive words and phrase that re-create sensory experience for the reader Ex: the cruise ship was bigger than a mansion

Irony- Is a special kind of contrast between appearances and realty Ex: The pilot forgot how to fly

Memoir- A form of autobiographical writing in which a person recalls significant events in his or her life Ex: The old lady on the plane told me about the first time she has ever flown in a airplane

Metaphor- A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but that something in common Ex: The car we were driving in was smaller than a toy

Narrative Nonfiction- Tells a true story that includes a real setting, all the elements of plot, actual people, and a point of view Ex: The captain of the cruise ship told us about a sailor Mood- The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader is called mood. Ex: The music at the train station was very relaxing

Parallelism- Is the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance Ex: The copilot is just as important as the plot

Plot- The sequence of events in a story Ex: We went to the train station. The train was late. Then we got on the train. Then we arrived in New York.

Pun- Is a joke that comes from a play on word Ex: What did Tennessee the same thing Arkansas. Repetition- A technique in which a sound, word, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis Ex: The sky is fun to fly in. The sky is awesome. The sky is nice.

Satire- A literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society Ex: Airplane the movie

Setting- The time and place of action of the story Ex: It’s 10:00PM and we had a redeye flight at the airport

Simile- A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two thing using like or as Ex: This airport is so crowded it’s like the mall

Soliloquy- Is a speech in which a character speaks thoughts aloud Ex: This is taken to long I said in the car

Sound Devices- The use of words for their auditory effect, can convey meaning and mood or unify a work

Ex: I heard a huge POP and I knew the tire was flat Suspense- The excitement or tension that readers feel as they become involved in the story Ex: When we were in the air the plane was in a lot turbulence, I was so scared that the plane would fall

Symbolism- Is a person, a place, an activity, or an object that stands for something beyond itself Ex: The man saw the United Airlines symbol

Theme- Is the main idea in a work of literature Ex: Traveling is fun and boring

Tone- Is the attitude a writer takes toward a subject Ex: When she greeted me with a nice hello, I knew the flight attendant would be nice

Understatement- Is a technique of creating emphasis by less that is actually or literally true Ex: The plane took so long to take off