A conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
What is an inference?
A brief statement or account of the main points of a text.
What is a summary?
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
A comparison between two different things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The spoken exchange between characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
The central idea or underlying message in a literary work.
What is a theme?
The time and place in which the story takes place.
What is setting?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story, often driving the plot.
What is conflict?
Is giving human characteristics to non-human things or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
Scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
What is a flashback?
A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
The most important point or concept that the author wants to convey in a text.
What is the central idea?
The part of the story where the conflict is resolved and the story comes to a conclusion.
What is resolution?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A category of literature characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
The author's attitude toward the subject or audience, conveyed through word choice and style.
What is tone?
The main character in a story, often facing a conflict.
What is a protagonist?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
A literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
What is a motif?
Techniques that writers use to create a specific effect in their writing.
What are literary devices?
The main enemy or rival of the main characters.
What is an antagonist?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images.
What is imagery?
A story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is allegory?