Part 1
Main character
Protagonist
The statement about life the author is trying to get across in a story.
Theme
The view or perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Tone is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or the character.
Tone
Internal Conflict Example
Man v. Self
The person or thing working against the protagonist
Antagonist
A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing.
Allusion
The time and place of the story.
Setting
A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words LIKE or AS.
Simile
External Conflict Examples
Man v. Man; Man v. Nature; Man v. Society; Man v. God (Fate)
An outrageous exaggeration.
Hyperbole
The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that will happen later in a story.
Foreshadowing
Person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
A personification is when non-human objects are given human characteristics.
Personification
The action or sequence of events in a story.
Plot
A phrase or expression that has a different meaning that its literal meaning.
Idiom
A type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over in literature.
Archetype
Is using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning.
Irony
A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but mean two completely different things.
Pun
A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into one single unusual expression.
Oxymoron
Exposition; Rising Action; Climax; Falling Action; Resolution
The words used to represent persons, objects, feelings, using the five senses.
Imagery
What are the 4 points of view?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person omniscient
3rd person limited
A direct comparison of two unlike things NOT using “like” or “as”
Metaphor
When two elements of a statement contradict one another.
Paradox