Literary Terms
Struggles
Point of View
Literary Terms II
Plot Line
Literary Terms III
Types of Characters
100

Literary works that are based on imagination, not necessarily facts

What is Fiction?

100

A struggle (the problem in the story)

What is Conflict?

100

The person or character telling the story

Who is the Narrator?

100

A moment of sudden enlightenment/understanding (an "Aha!" moment...the light bulb goes off in the brain)

What is an Epiphany?

100

What happens in the story

What is Plot?

100

A return to an earlier time

What is a Flashback?

100

The central or main character

What is the Protagonist?

200

Literary works that are fact-based

What is Non-fiction?

200

A struggle you have within yourself

What is an Internal Struggle (Person vs Self)?

200

One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me, etc.)

What is First-Person Point of View?

200

The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.

What is Mood?

200

This introduces characters and settings while supplying background information

What is Exposition?

200

Hints or clues to future events in the story

What is Foreshadowing?

200

Character(s) in opposition to the main character

What is the Antagonist?

300

The time and place of the story

What is a Setting?

300

A problem between a character and school, the Law, or some tradition.

What is a Person vs Society?

300

~Outside narrator

~Not a character in the story

~Can only report what s/he hears and/or sees

What is Third-Person Objective Point of View?

300

A reference to something else in literature


What is an Allusion?

300

Complications/crisis/problems begin to take place (conflicts arise and tension builds)

What is Rising Action?

300

A person, place or and object that stands for something else

What is a Symbol?

300

A character that changes over the course of the story

What is a Dynamic Character?

400

~shorter than a novel

~fictional (based on imagination)

~one or more characters

~one or more conflict

What is a Short Story?

400

A Florida resident's house flooded because of Hurricane Ian

What is a Person vs Nature?

400

~Outside narrator

~Not a character in the story

~Knows the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters (all, everything)

What is Third-Person Omniscient?

400
The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is Tone?
400

High point in the story where the tension breaks (usually the highest point of interest) 

What is the Climax?

400

Words or phrases that create a mental picture

Appeals to the five senses

What is imagery?

400

A character that does not change over the course of the story

What is Static Character

500

The overall meaning (central message) of the story

What is the Theme?

500

A problem or struggle that appears to be well beyond a character's control.

What is a Person vs Fate (God)?

500

~Outside narrator

~Not a character in the story

~Knows the thoughts and feelings of one character only

What is Third-Person Limited Omniscient?

500

Tools the writer uses to create a character

~Description

~Character's speeches/actions

~Character's thoughts/feelings

~Reactions/Opinions of other characters

What is Characterization?

500

The events in the story which follow the climax (a decision needs to be made)

What is the Falling Action?

500

A side by side contrast; place two characters, concepts, ideas or places near or next to each other so that the reader will compare and contrast them

What is Juxtaposition?

500

A character that is three dimensional, but not the main character

What is Round Character?

600

In the movie, Jaws, the audience knows a shark is lurking in the water but the swimmers do not know the shark is there

What is Dramatic Irony?

600

A new school rule is created where cell phones are not allowed in the building. A group of students walk out, protesting the new rule.

What is an example of Person vs Society?

600

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No wrong word Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feelings of something terrible about to happen.

- THE GIVER 

What is Third Person Limited?

600

When that opposite of what you expect to happen occurs

What is Irony?

600

The outcome of the story/the conclusion

What is the Resolution?

600

When one student tells the other student, "I love learning literary elements and I cannot wait to take the test on Tuesday!"

What is Verbal Irony?

600

A character that is there to highlight what the protagonist is going through

What is Flat Character?

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