Noun
Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
Verb
expresses action or state of being
Pronoun
takes the place of a noun
Adjective
a word that modifies a noun or pronoun
Adverb
modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
Preposition
a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word
Conjunction
a word that joins two phrases or sentences
Interjection
A word that expresses emotion
Indirect Characterization
—> What the characters say, do, think, waer, look like, where they are, etc.
Direct Characterization
—> Through the author’s direct statement
Participant or Internal Point of View
FIRST PERSON
Non- participant or External Point of View
THIRD PERSON
Omniscienct Narrator
Knows what ALL characters are thinking
Limited Omniscient
Knows what a few or one character is thinking
Objective Narrator
Does not know what any characters are thinking
Antagonist
Bad Person of the Story
Protagonist
Good person of the story
Conflict
– Human vs. Human-Human vs. Self-Human vs. Nature-Human vs. Society-Human vs. Fate
Theme
Moral of the story
Simile
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
Metaphor
comparison not using like or as
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Alliteration
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
Onomatopeia
a word that imitates a sound
Connotation
an idea that is implied or suggested—> The bigger meaning ( Ex. HOME–> family, sleeping, dinner, etc.)
Imagery
the ability to form mental images of things or events
Irony
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
stanza
a group of lines in a poem
