1. TERMS FOR
UNDERSTANDING
LITERATURE AND
ART
8th grade English
CJHS

2. Let’s get artsy!
ART VOCABULARY

3. COLOR
 Result of the reflection or absorption of light by a surface
 Pigment that causes visual sensation
 Not black or white
 3 characteristics of color:
 Hue (attribute of a color that gives it a general classification—
yellow, green, etc.
 Intensity (brightness of a color)
 Value (lightness or darkness of a hue or neutral color)

4. LINE
 A break of space in color (or black and white)

5. SHADE AND SHADOWS
 Dark value of a color made by adding black

6. SPACE
 The area between, around, below, or contained within objects.

7. BRUSHSTROKE
 The movement of an artist’s brush full of paint or ink on a surface

8. PERSPECTIVE
 The system of viewing a 3D object that is viewed on a 2D surface.

9. BACKGROUND
 The part of the picture that seems to be farthest from the viewer.

10. FOCAL POINT
 The place in a work of art at which attention becomes focused because of an
element emphasized in some way.

11. SUBJECT
 The topic or idea represented in an artwork
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12. Let’s get literary!
LITERARY VOCABULARY

13. THEME
 A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
 Literary Works include
 Fiction
 An imaginative story
 Non-fiction
 A true story
 Biographies
 An account of someone’s life, written by an outside source
 Autobiographies
 An account of someone’s life, written by the same person
 Memoirs
 A brief portion of someone’s life, written by the same
person

14. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
 A way of speaking or writing in a non-literal way
 Metaphor
 Hyperbole
 Simile
 Personification
 Idiom

15. DENOTATION V.
CONNOTATION
 Denotation
 The literal meaning (dictionary definition) of a word
 Connotation
 The emotional feeling of a word that might differ from the denotation of a
word

16. SETTING
 Time, place, and environment of a story.

17. MOOD V. TONE
 Mood
 The READER’S feelings (emotions) created by a literary work
 Tone
 The AUTHOR’S attitude (feelings) toward the subject, a character, or the
audience.
 Both mood and tone are created with diction (word choice).

18. IRONY
 3 Types
 Situational
 When something happens in a story that is not just surprising, but is the exact
opposite of what you expected to happen.
 Verbal
 When something is said but what is meant is the opposite. (sarcasm)
 Dramatic
 The reader or audience knows something the character/characters do not know

19. STYLE
 The way in which a writer or speaker says what he/she says

20. HUMOR
 Dialogue, action, or an event that is designed to be comical, witty, funny, or
amusing.

21. PERSPECTIVE V. POINT OF
VIEW
Perspective Point of View
 The state of one’s ideas, the  The perspective from which
facts known to one, and the a story is told.
angle from which one views  1st person
a situation.  2nd person
 3rd person limited
 3rd person omniscient