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A feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events...
What is suspense?
Characters and setting are introduced...
What is exposition?
Stories about gods, goddess, etc., that explain how natural things came about...
What is a myth?
A struggle between a character and an outside force...
What is an external conflict?
The high point or turning point in a literary work...
What is the climax?
A writer or speaker's word choice...
What is style?
A comparison of two unlike things...
What is a metaphor?
Includes the main character or any other characters who play significant roles...
What is a major character?
The act or creating and developing a character...
What is characterization
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement often used for comic relief...
What is a hyperbole?
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally...
What is figurative language?
A central message or insight into life revealed by literary work...
What is theme?
The use of words that imitate sounds, i.e- buzz, hiss
What is onomatopoeia?
Stories that tell about imaginary characters and events...
What is fiction?
An expression for work used imaginatively rather than literally...
What is figure of speech?
The reader knows more about the plot than the characters in the story...
What is dramatic irony?
The perspective or vantage point from which the story is told...
What is POV?
A section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to relate to an event from an earlier time...
What is a flashback?
The atmosphere or feeling within a literary work...
What is mood?
Used when a narrator of a story is a character in the story and refers to himself, or herself, with the first pronoun "I"...
What is 1st person POV?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of the majority of the characters...
What is 3rd person omniscient POV?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words...
What is alliteration?
The ordinary form of written language. It includes writing that isn't drama, poetry or song and it occurs in two forms: Fiction and Nonfiction...
What is a prose?
A contradiction between what is stated and what is meant or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens...
What is irony?
A contradiction between an action that occurs and the expectations of the characters, of the reader, or the audience...
What is situational irony?