The character who works against the main character and is usually the source of the conflict.
Antagonist
100
The part of the story where setting, characters, and background information is established.
Exposition
100
A category of literature or film.
Genre
100
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
Mood
100
The place, time, and general environment in which events in a story happen.
Setting
200
From the Greek word for ladder, it is the moment in a story when the conflict or crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is usualy the turning point in the story's action.
Climax
200
The strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary regardless of its emotional connotation.
Denotation
200
Exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
200
NAME THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: A word that helps your hear sounds such as buzz, snap, whir, swoosh, pop, smack, creak.
Onomatopoeia
200
The central message expressed in a story.
Theme
300
A struggle between two forces that is central to a story's plot
Conflict
300
The “extra” meaning a word carries beyond its strict dictionary meaning. For example, “home” means the same as “house” but “home” also carries the meaning that certain qualities and personal possessions are also implied.
Connotation
300
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
Falling Action
300
The chain of events in a story
Plot
300
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The way an author conveys his/her attitude about particular characters and subject matter. In poetry, it is called “voice.” It is the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s].
Tone
400
IDENTIFY THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Repeats the same letter sound.
The beach ball bubbled into the air above the boys' heads.
Alliteration
400
Language that helps the reader create mental images or makes the reader feel a certain way.
Descriptive Language
400
NAME THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Creates a feeling of amusement in the reader because it describes something that is opposite of what the reader will expect.
Irony
400
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. …Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
Personification
400
Anything that represents, or stands for, an idea, person, event, or object.
Symbol
500
NAME THE TYPE OF CONFLICT: This conflict involves an internal struggle.
Character versus Self.
500
Language that is used to describe things, usually with comparisons that are not supposed to be taken literally.
Figurative Language
500
A part of the plot that means "to stir up" or "move to action."
Inciting Incident
500
The position or relationship of the story teller to the events of the story.
Point of View
500
An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern that may be subdivisions of a poem.