Lit Terms 1
Lit Terms 2
Lit Terms 3
Lit Terms 4
Lit Terms 5
100
the action of the story
What is plot?
100
the main idea of the story
What is the theme?
100
the overall feeling of the story created by the author's choice of words
What is Mood?
100
the words that characters speak in the story
What is dialogue?
100
the central source of drama in the story
What is the conflict?
200
an image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning
What is a symbol?
200
clues in the story that suggest the narrator's own attitude towards elements in the story
What is Tone?
200
characteristic ways that an individual author uses language
What is Style?
200
techniques used by the author to keep the reader interested in the story
What is Suspense?
200
the author's choice of words/vocabulary level of the story
What is their Diction?
300
the protagonist of a novel or play, often with unusually noble and virtuous qualities
What is a hero/heroine?
300
a character's unique manner of speech that informs about the character's cultural group
What is Dialect?
M
e
n
u