Literary Terms - Part I

Literary Terms - Part I

______- the opponent or enemy of the main character

______- the means through which an author reveals a character’s personality

______- the writer or narrator tells the reader what the character is like

______- the author shows the reader what the character is like through: (1)______

(2)______

(3)______

(4)______

(5)______

______- the struggle between opposing forces in a story

______- a character who goes through significant internal change over the course of a story

______- a main or important character

______- a character who does not play a large part in a story

______- the sequence of events in a story. It includes the:

______- the beginning of the story

______- events that are leading to the problem

______- when the problem reaches its most intense moment

______- the events after the most intense moment

______- how things end

______- the perspective from which a story is told

______- where the narrator is a character in the story

______- where the narrator is not a character in the story but can describe the experiences and thoughts of only one character

______- where the narrator is not a character in the story and is able to describe the experiences and thoughts of all the characters

______- the main character of a work of literature

______- the time and place of a story

______- a character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story

______- an object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another meaning as well.

______- a story’s main message, moral, or lesson

Literary Terms – Part II

______- words spoken to the audience by a character that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage

______- the conversation between characters in a story

______- the use of words in their non-literal way to make a comparison, add emphasis, or say something in a creative way. Examples of figurative language include:

______- when two or more words in a group of words begins with the same sound

______- an extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect

______- an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words

______- language that portrays sensory experiences, or from sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

______- the comparison of two unlike things that doesn’t use the words like or as

______- the use of words whose sounds imitate the sounds of what they describe

______- describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas as though they possess human qualities or emotions

______- when two unlike things are compared using the words like or as

______- a scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story

______- clues or hints about something that is going to happen in the story

______- (1) ______-when the audience or reader is aware of something that characters are not aware of

(2) ______- when something happens that is the reverse of what is expected

(3) ______- when the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth

______- the feeling the reader gets from a work of literature – examples include calm, creepy, sad, or tense

______- the practice of using symbols

______- the author’s attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience – examples include humorous, melancholy, serious, or gleeful