Literary Terms
Definitions
Literary Story
Informational
Plot Chart
100

the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work

What is Plot?

100

having plenty of

What is Abundant?

100
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.


What is a Narrative? 

100

describing a single location, object, event, person, or place.

Descriptive

100

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

What is Exposition?

200

Most Exciting Part of the Story

What is Climax? 

200

approaching or entering a place.

What is Access?

200

specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

What is Drama?


200

an account of someone's life written by someone else.

What is a Biography? 

200

all of the events that lead to the eventual climax  

What is Rising Action?

300

a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word

What is Synonym?

300

give up completely

What is Abandon?

300

 form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language

What is Poetry?

300

 Literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reason and logic

What is Persuasive? 

300

what happens near the end of a story after the climax and resolution of the major conflict.

What is Falling action?

400

when you describe something by comparing it to something else.

What is Figurative Language?

400

Severe Pain 

What is anguish?

400

based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

What is non-fiction?

400

Writing that explains, informs, or describes and is of superior or lasting artistic merit.

What is Expository?

400

the end of the story.

What is Resolution?

500

the use of words to create a connection to any of the five senses.

What is Sensory Language?

500

anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

What is apprehensive? 

500

literature created from the imagination.

What is fiction?

500

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

What is genre?

500

Moat important part of story. 

What is climax? 

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