Here are the terms we reviewed on Thursday. They will play an important part in your analysis of this semester's texts. Make sure you are familiar with the terms for your in class test on Thursday, 9/22.
Point-of-view: the position or vantage point from which the events of the story seem to be observed/presented to the reader; first person, third person or omniscient narrator
Unreliable narrator: a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the true understanding of the events.
Themes: an abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s treatment of the subject matter; a reoccurring topic
Irony: a subtly humorous perception of inconsistency, in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which one thing, idea or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two; an imaginary identity rather than directly stating the comparison
Simile: an explicit comparison between two different things, action or feelings; incorporates the words “as” or “like”
Imagery: a representation of a sense impression, feeling, or idea. Visual, sound, feel, taste, smell
