#1 READING: LITERARY TEXT

Person Vs. Self

This describes the type of conflict when the leading character struggles with himself/herself; with his conscience, feelings, or ideas.

Classical Literature

This includes great masterpieces of the Greek, Roman, and other ancient civilizations as well as any writing that is widely considered a model of its form.

Mythology

This is a body or collection of tales belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes. It explains the actions of gods and goddesses or the cause of natural phenomena and includes supernatural elements.

Archetypal Character

This is a character in a work that represents a certain type of person.

Tension

This is a form of suspense or potential conflict. It can occur between characters or arise from general situations.

Mystery

This is a genre that often includes detectives and a crime that must be solved.

Detail

This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea.

Flashback

This is a scene, a conversation, or an event that interrupts the present action to show something that happened in the past.

Scene

This is a small division of a play that usually happens in a particular time and place.

Implied

This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. It is an ___ definition.

Myth

This is a traditional tale about gods, goddesses, heroes, and other characters.

Informational Text

This is a type of real-world writing that presents material that is necessary or valuable to the reader.

Adaptation

This is a version of an original source (such as a diary, an autobiography, or a story) which is modified for presentation in another form, such as a film, a musical, or a play.

Perspective

This is a writer's or speaker's point of view about a particular subject, and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives.

Opinion

This is an expression of an author's personal belief. It is not something that can be proved to be true or false.

Character

This is an individual's mental or moral quality.

Word Choice

This is another way of saying "diction." This can help reveal a) the tone of the work, b) connotations of meaning, and/or c) his style of writing.

Inference

This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. You make an _____.

Tone

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

Universal Theme

This is the central message of a story, poem, novel, or play that many readers can apply to their own experiences, or to those of all people.

Characterization

This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like.

Central Argument

This is the dominant and controlling argument.

Mood

This is the feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading.

Media

This is the main means of mass communication.

Theme

This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work.

Main Idea

This is the most important idea of a reading passage or presentation.

Citation

This is the notation of a source used for a paper.

Literal Meaning

This is the ordinary, usual, or exact meaning of words, phrases, or passages. No figurative language or interpretation is involved.

Point Of View

This is the perspective from which a story is told or information is provided. It is the way the author lets the readers see and hear the story or information; who tells the story.

Author's Purpose

This is the reason for creating written work.

Allusion

This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar.

Paraphrase

This is the restatement of a written work in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work.

Plot

This is the series of events that happen in a literary work.

Topic

This is the specific part of a subject that is dealt with in a research paper, essay, or presentation.

Thesis Statement

This is the the main idea of an essay, usually expressed as a generalization that is supported with concrete evidence.

Setting

This is the time and place in which a literary work happens.

Motivation

This is the wants, needs, or beliefs that cause a character to act or react in a particular way.

Style

This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure.

Diction

This is the writer's choice of words, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language.

Informal Language

This is what people use in everyday speech. It usually consists of fairly short sentences and simple vocabulary. It is called _______ speech or language.

Indirect

This is when an author reveals a person in the story through his/her words, thoughts, appearance, action, or what others think or say about him/her. It is called ___ characterization.

Conclusion

This is when you use pieces of information on a subject to base your opinion or make a decision. You draw a ________.

Technical Writing

This is writing that communicates specific information about a particular subject, craft, or occupation.

Fiction

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

Formal Language

This kind of language usually has longer sentences and a greater variety of words than everyday speech. Slang, contractions, and jargon are avoided.

Structure

This refers to a writer's arrangement or overall design of a literary work. It is the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are organized to create a complete work.

Jargon

This refers to the language of a specialized type, usually dealing with a narrow area of study or knowledge. It has a slightly negative connotation, and can imply that the language is mere word play.

Analyze

This verb means to separate a whole into its parts and then look more closely at those parts.

Event

This word means anything that happens to or is done by a character in a story.

Summarize

To restate briefly is to ____.

Support

To strengthen or prove an argument, analysis, or idea by providing facts, details, examples and other information is to ___ it.

Supporting

To strengthen your ideas and opinions with examples, facts, or details is to add _____ details.

Definition

Usually found in a dictionary, this tells you the meaning of a word or phrase.

Shakespeare

He was a great poet and playwright during the English Renaissance. His works include Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and many sonnets.

Classic

Something widely recognized as a model or example of a type of literary work.

Supporting Evidence

These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis.

Characters

These are the people or animals who take part in a literary work.

Supporting

A _____ sentence helps to give additional evidence for a claim or a main idea.

Literary Summary

A _____ summary is a synopsis of the events, characters, and ideas in a work of literature.

Static

A _________ character does not change during the course of the action.

Flat Character

A character in a fictional work that is never fully developed by the author is called a ___.

Dynamic

A character who changes during the course of a story is called a _____ character.

Sequence

A group of steps or events that are in order is called a ____.

Source

A person, book, document, website or record that provides information is called a ____.

Source

A research __________ is any material that can be used to locate information about a given topic.

Moral

A theme of a passage, story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life is called a ____.

Medium

A way of communicating information

Purpose

An author's ____ could be to inform, to entertain, or to persuade.

Quote

If you repeat the words someone else has said or written, you ______ them.

Conflict

Often, an antagonistic relationship called a ___ drives the plot of a story or novel.

Controlling

The _____ idea of a passage is the idea which is dealt with and recurs throughout the passage.

Central

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

Denotation

The literal definition of a word is also called its ______.

Thesis

The main point or central idea that a writer states and then endeavors to prove is called a ____.

Context Clues

These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of the word. They are called ___ ___.

Internal

When a character has a problem within him or herself it is called an ___ conflict.

Direct Characterization

When a character is revealed by clear descriptions by the author, this is called _____ characterization.

Context

When we find the meaning of a word (or phrase) by looking at the words and sentences around it, we are using ____ clues.