9th grade lit

Fiction

Literature that is imagined or invented

Nonfiction

Literature that is about facts and real people, or events

Poetry

Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.

prose

A literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhthym and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech

Drama

a composition in verse or prose intended to potray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performances

Poem

A work of poetry

Line

A group of words arranged in a row

Stanza

A group of lines arranged in a unit

Speaker

The character who is speaking or narrating the poem. Not always the author

Sentence

A group of words expressing a grammatical complete thought

Paragraph

A group of sentences in a unit

Narrotor

The character who is speaking or narrating the piece. This is not always the author

Novel

A book-length worth of fiction

Essay

A short work of non-fiction

Setting

The time and place in which the events in a work of literature occur

POV

The perspective used by the narrator to recount the events of a story or novel

First person

Point of view uses I or we pronouns. The narrator is speaking from a first hand experience

Second person

Point of view uses you pronouns. The narrator seems to be directly addressing the audience

Third person

Point of view uses he, she or they pronouns. The narrator seems to have a broader view of the story and does not speak from first hand experience

Tone

Attitude or emotion of a given piece of languageicD

Diction

Word choice

register

Level of formality of language

Detonation

The strict dictionary definition of a word

connotation

The extra tinge or emotional meaning each word carries beyond the minimal strict definition found in a dictionary

Symbol

An object, action, or event that represents something beyond itself.

Allusion

A reference to another literary or historical work, figure or event

Figurative language

Language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across

Simile

A comparison of two unlikely things using like or as

Metaphor

A comparison of two unlikely things that does not use like or as

Imagery

Language that a writer uses to convey a visual picture or represent any sensory experience