Literary Terms
Literary works that are based on imagination, not necessarily facts
What is Fiction?
A struggle (the problem in the story)
What is Conflict?
The person or character telling the story
Who is the Narrator?
A return to an earlier time
What is a Flashback?
The central or main character
What is the Protagonist?
Literary works that are fact-based
What is Non-fiction?
A struggle you have within yourself
What is an Internal Struggle (Person vs Self)?
One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me, etc.)
What is First-Person Point of View?
Hints or clues to future events in the story
What is Foreshadowing?
Character(s) in opposition to the main character
What is the Antagonist?
The time and place of the story
What is a Setting?
a struggle with a hurricane
What is an external conflict?What is man vs nature?
~Outside narrator
~Can only report what s/he hears and/or sees
What is Third-Person Point of View?
A person, place or and object that stands for something else
What is a Symbol?
A character that changes over the course of the story
What is a Dynamic Character?
~shorter than a novel
~fictional (based on imagination)
~one or more characters
~one or more conflict
What is a Short Story?
A struggle with a bully
External conflict. What is man vs society?
The rain was coming down harder than I expected it. The streets were covered and I was starting to get soaked.
What is first person point of view?
What is an adjective?
A character that does not change over the course of the story
What is Static Character
The overall meaning (central message) of the story
What is the Theme?
Random Question!!!!!
How many chapters did The Outsiders have?
What is 12?
You will not believe what happened. You would be in shock!
What is the second point of view?
The intended readers of a piece of writing
What is an audience?
Mrs. Black's favorite color
What is green?
motives, feelings, actions, & dialogue
What is characterization?
A group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with punctuation but is not a complete sentence because it lacks a subject or predicate or both
What is a fragment?
The conversation between or among characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
he, she, they, their
What is a pronoun?
What is Mrs. Black's husband's name?
What is Rich