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The point or main idea of a literary work.
What is Theme?
The time, place, and social conditions in which literary work occurs.
What is Setting?
The feeling a piece of literature is intended to create in a reader.
What is Mood?
The action that makes up the story, following a plan called the plot line.
What is Plot?
A problem or struggle between two opposing forces in the story.
What is conflict?
Perspective from which the story is told.
What is Point of View?
The person or character who actually tells the story, filling in the background information and bridging gaps in the dialogue.
What is Narrator?
The main character in a story; often a good or heroic type.
What is Protagonist?
The person or force that works against the hero of the story.
What is Antagonist?
Words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses.
What is Imagery?
Narrator is a character in the story; uses “I’, “we”, etc.
What is first-person point of view?
A direct comparison, a statement that one thing is another thing.
What is Metaphor?
The action and dialogue following the climax that lead the reader into the end of the story.
What is Falling Action?
The part of the story in which the problems are solved and the action comes to an end.
What is Resolution?
The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs.
What is Irony?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is Personification?
A comparison using like or as.
What is Simile?
Narrator can see into the minds of all characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
Important hints that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come, and help the reader anticipate the outcome.
What is Foreshadowing?
Narrator is outside the story; uses “he/she”, “they”
What is third-person point of view?
The central part of the story during which various problems arise after a conflict is introduced.
What is Rising Action?
A problem between characters.
What is person against person conflict?
Interruption of the chronological order (time) to present something that happened before the beginning of the story (past).
What is Flashback?
A problem between a character and some force of nature such as a blizzard.
What is person against nature conflict?
The high point in the action of a story.
What is Climax?