1. Literary Terms
Review and Activity

2. Warm-Up Take a packet from the front desk
Begin filling in the words that you know the definition for and any examples you can fill in.
You will have a quiz on this __________________

3. Terms We Should Know Simile Character Metaphor Protagonist
Personification
Antagonist
Plot
Setting
Episode
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia

4. Terms we should know, but have not reviewed together
Dialogue
The talking between characters; usually found in quotation marks
Motive
The reason behind a character’s actions
Theme
The moral of the story or the message the author intended
Synonym
Words with similar meanings

5. Terms we should know, but have not reviewed together
Antonyms
Words that have the opposite meaning
Homophones
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings
Conflict
A problem in the story
Resolution
The portion of the story in which the conflict is resolved.

6. Terms that may be new Irony Imagery Foreshadowing Genre
When something happens that is the opposite of what is expected
Imagery
The use of words to create a picture in the reader’s mind
Foreshadowing
An event in the story that gives a hint about something that will happen later in the story.
Genre
Type of literature based on style, form, and content
Examples:

7. Project You will be assigned 3 or 4 terms.
You will create a mini poster on an large index card about your literary terms.
On the card you will need to include
The literary term bolded
A picture describing the word
On the back, you will write the definition of the word.
We will be hanging these up so please make them neat, legible, and useful.