ALLUSION: A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature
CHARACTER: Any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal representation
CHARACTERIZATION: An author or poet's use of description, dialogue, dialect, and action to create in the reader an emotional or intellectual reaction to a character or to make the character more vivid and realistic.
CLIMAX: The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved
CONCLUSION: The end or close; final part
DIALOUGE: Conversation between two or more characters in a literary work
EXPOSITION: The part of the plot of a short story, novel, novella, or play in which the characters, setting, and situation are introduced
FALLING ACTION: The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved
FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW- the narrator speaks as "I" and the narrator is a character in the story who may or may not influence events within it.
FORESHADOWING: Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative
IRONY: saying one thing and meaning another
MAKING INFERENCES/ INFER: Using Clues to figure out meanings that are not stated
NARRATOR: Person who tells the story
PERSONIFICATION- A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human
Plot: the sequence of events in story, novel, and play
POINT OF VIEW: The way a story gets told and who tells it. It is the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of vision, from which the story unfolds.
PREDICT: Guessing what happens next
RESOLUTION: refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot
RISING ACTION: The part of the plot that adds complications to the problems in the story and increases reader interest
SUSPENSE- Quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events
SYMBOL: A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level
SYMBOLISM: Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level
THEME: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work
TONE: the writer or narrator’s attitude towards a subject
WORD CHOICE:use of specific vivid words that express the writer’s ideas clearly
CLARIFY: to make something clear and understandable
SIMILE: An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as