Literary Terms 1
The way a reader is made to feel when reading a story.
What is Mood?
The person who tells the story.
What is Narrator?
Can interrupt a story's chronological order by describing what took place at an earlier time. Helps readers understand the story's current plot developments.
What is Flashback?
Events told by one character using pronouns, I, we, me, mine, us and ours.
What is First Person Point of View?
This Character, or group of characters, cause conflict for the protagonist.
What is an Antagonist?
An authors unique use of language that allows the reader to "hear" a human personality in the authors works.
What is Voice?
An author may try to amuse the reader, or persuade the reader, or inform the reader.
What is the Authors purpose or intent?
Presents conflict. The story's conflict, or problem leading to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
The beginning of a plot. It introduces the story's charters, setting and conflict.
What is Exposition?
Conversation between two or more people in a book, play or movie.
What is Dialogue?
The most important idea expressed in a paragraph or an essay. It may not be directly stated.
What is Main Idea/ Central Idea?
The way the narrator feels about events, setting and characters in a story.
What is Tone?
The moment of greatest interest in a story.
What is Climax?
When the text provides hints about what will happen later in a story.
What is Foreshadowing?
A struggle against an outside force, such as nature, a physical obstacle, or another character.
What is External conflict?
The message that you understand from the story about how should or should not behave.
What is Moral?
The time and place in which the events of a short story, novel or play occur.
What is Setting?
This is the main character, around which the whole story revolves.
What is Protagonist?
Reveals the conflicts final outcome.
What is Resolution?
Brings a story to an end or conclusion.
What is Falling Action?
The main problem of the story.
What is Conflict?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is Point of View?
A struggle that occurs in a character's mind, often times due to a clash of feelings, thoughts, or values.
What is an Internal Conflict?
The main idea or message of a story.
What is Theme?
A person, animal , creature, or thing in a story. An individual in a story.
What is Character?