ELA terms to know for Final

Imagery

Descriptive language appealing to the five senses

Simile

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."

Metaphor

A direct comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as."

Symbol/Symbolism

An object, person, or idea representing something else, usually abstract; the use of such symbols.

Theme

The central idea or underlying message of a literary work.

Personification

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas.

Setting

The time and place in which a story or event occurs.

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next without a pause.

Alliteration

The repetition of the same sounds, usually consonant sounds, at the beginning of words in a sentence or line of poetry.

Conflict

main problems in the story

Rhyme Scheme

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem or song.

Mood

The atmosphere or emotional state created in a reader by a literary work.

Ballad

A type of poem or song that tells a story, often a tragic or romantic one.

Foreshadowing

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Narrative

a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

Order of plot diagram

1: exposition 2: rising action 3: climax 4: falling action 5: resolution