Relacionar Columnas Midterm Lit Terms Review (WL)Versión en línea A review of literary terms used throughout the semester which will appear as answer choices or which will be embedded in the body of questions on the midterm. por Alicia Buckley 1 A reference in literature to another famous work (can be another work of literature, a piece of music, a work or art, and important historical event or figure, etc.) 2 To guess, based on information given in the text. 3 Indirectly stated, or hinted at 4 A repeated idea, usually a lesson or a moral, which can be tracked throughout a story 5 A comparison between two things which uses the word "like" or the word "as" 6 A type of character found across cultures and in many different time periods, like "The Hero" 7 When a author gives human traits to a non-human thing in a text 8 A comparison between two things which DOES NOT use the word "like" or the word "as" 9 Information which is directly stated in a text; and which leaves no room for multiple interpretations 10 Language which engages the senses and creates a picture in the mind of the reader 11 What we call a character who develops and changes (for better or worse) over the course of a story. 12 Something important to a group of people, living in a specific place and in a specific time period. 13 A question which does not require a direct answer, but is meant to make you think 14 the author's word choice 15 The author's attitude toward a subject OR A character's attitude toward a subject 16 The name for the technique of providing the entire basic plot of a story to readers at the very beginning, so that the reader can focus more on details when they make their way through the story 17 When an author hints at future events in a text. Foreshadowing Diction Tone Implicit/ Implied Rhetorical Question Cultural Value Archetype Imagery Complex Character Explicit Statement of Theme Theme Simile Infer Allusion Personification Metaphor