Literary Terms
Plot Structure
Genres
Perspective
Literary / Poetic Devices
100

The message or lesson of a story.

What is theme?
100

The conclusion of a story.

What is resolution?
100

A text that tells a story.

What is a narrative?
100
The type of perspective where only the facts are given, not emotions or thoughts.
What is third person objective?
100
Using the five senses to form a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
200

Time and place of a story.

What is setting?

200

The beginning of a story that gives background information.

What is exposition?
200
A text that is based off of true events, but has fictional characters and other fake facts included.
What is historical fiction?
200
A text the reveals the thoughts and emotions of two or more characters.
What is third person omniscient?
200
The emotion of a poem.
What is tone/mood?
300

Events in a story.

What is plot?
300

The place in a story in which the conflict is at its highest tension.

What is climax?
300

A narrative in which the author is the person that the story is about.

What is an autobiography?
300
A text that focuses on the thoughts and emotions of the main character, using only the pronouns "he", "she", or "they".
What is third person limited?
300
The reader or audience knows something that the character doesn't.
What is dramatic irony?
400

The main problem in a story.

What is conflict?
400

Events that happen before the climax.

What is the rising action?
400
A text that is entirely made-up.
What is fiction?
400

A text in which the main character is written as if it were the author.

What is first person?
400
The literary elements, poetic devices, and the specific type of language used in a text.
What is word choice?
500

The author's attitude.

What is tone?
500

Events that happen after the main conflict occurs?

What is the falling action?
500
A text that persuades the reader to believe a specific claim. 
What is argumentative?
500

The person that is telling the narrative. (Not the author)

What is the narrator?
500
The emotional definition of a word?
What is connotation?
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