Lesson:
1. Familiarize yourself with the terms listed below.
2. Complete the Word/Definition/Example Organizer using the words below. Literature & Poetry Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
3. Once you have mastered the Characters In History Vocabulary, please complete the following assessment. Unit 4 Vocabulary: Literature & Poetry
Literature & Poetry Vocabulary
Greater Good: to benefit the good of the many, not the few.
Diverged: separate from another route, especially a main one, and go in a different direction.
Philanthropy: the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
Point of View: the narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
First Person: Writing that uses pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself or herself, either alone ( first person singular) or together with others ( first person plural)
Second Person: Writing requires use of the pronouns you, your, and yours. This point of view is used to address the audience in technical writing, advertising, songs and speeches.
Third Person: The third-person objective employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings; instead, it gives an objective, unbiased point of view. Often the narrator is self-dehumanized in order to make the narrative more neutral.
Omniscient: A narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowing, or omniscient.
Limited Omniscient: A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor, has a limited omniscient point of view.
Objective: not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
symbolism: an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
perspective:a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
connotation: an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
interpretation: the action of explaining the meaning of something.
literal: taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.
figurative: departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical.