Literary Terms
The Sequence of Events
Examples
Language
WILD CARD
100
A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a Character?
100
The introduction, the part of work that introduces the characters, setting and basic situation.
What is an Exposition?
100
He is as strong as an Ox.
What is a simile?
100
An earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events.
What is a flashback?
100
The perspective or vantage point, from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
The main character in a literary work
What is a Protagonist?
200
The part of the plot that begins to occur as soon as the conflict is introduced.
What is the rising action?
200
Life is a bowl of cherries.
What is a metaphor?
200
The author's use of clue to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The manner in which we express words; the wording used.
What is diction?
300
A character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.
What is an Antagonist?
300
The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest or suspense in the plot of a narrative. Typically, the turning point in a story.
What is the Climax?
300
Pretty Ugly
What is an oxymoron?
300
The time and place of the action.
What is the setting?
300
Dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have.
What is denotation?
400
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
The action that typically follows the climax and reveals its results.
What is the falling action?
400
The chair felt lonely since Suzie was absent all week.
What is personification?
400
A reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story or other literary work.
What is tone?
400
Where characters, setting and introduction of a story is found on the plot line.
What is an exposition?
500
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage?
What is mood?
500
The part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict.
What is the Resolution?
500
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is alliteration?
500
The growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature.
What is suspense?
500
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
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