Lit Terms Review

Central message or insight into life

• Plot

• Style

• Tone

• Theme

An author's unique way of writing

• Diction

• Style

• Tone

• Symbolism

An author's choice of words

• Tone

• Mood

• Irony

• Diction

The writer's attitude toward their audience/subject

• Tone

• Mood

• Irony

• Theme

Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

• Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, reader, or audience

• Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true

• Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

Material is presented that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Allusion

• Symbolism

What is a flashback?

• When the story returns to a previous time in the characters' lives

• When the story tells the future

• When the story is super flashy and exciting

• When the story pauses for an intermission

What is NOT a reason for using an epithet?

• A character description

• To remind the singer where he is in the story

• To take up space in the lines

• Because Homer forgot he used it already