Walch Toolbook: Prose and PoetryWalch Publishing, 1998 - 118 pages Illuminates the basics of literature, including setting, plot, character, mood, theme, and point of view. Develops literary vocabulary. Demystifies poetic terms and forms. |
Contents
Basic Tools | 1 |
Person | 5 |
Mood | 7 |
Plot | 10 |
Conflict | 11 |
Style | 13 |
Theme | 14 |
Point of View | 15 |
Antithesis | 30 |
Apostrophe | 33 |
Hyperbole | 36 |
Irony | 39 |
Literary Allusion | 42 |
Metaphor | 45 |
Metonymy | 48 |
Oxymoron | 51 |
Slant | 17 |
Setting | 20 |
Character | 22 |
Figures of Speech | 25 |
It Figures | 28 |
Personification | 54 |
Simile | 57 |
Synecdoche | 60 |
Understatement Litotes | 63 |
Common terms and phrases
accent acrostic action alliteration anapestic answer ballad beginning bells bright called character decide element entire event example Exercise Explication eyes facts feel feet figures of speech five give hand hear human Hyperbole iambic idea identified irony light literary Litotes look marked means metaphors mood Name Date never Ode to Duty pair pattern pentameter person play plot poem poet poetry point of view questions Read reader reason recognized refer remember requirements rhyme scheme rhythm rule scene selected senses sentence simile single slant someone sonnet sound speak specific stanza pattern statement story style syllables Tasting tells theme things thou thought tion tree Trochaic understand understatement unlike usually verse write