Literary Terms
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work
What is Plot?
having plenty of
What is Abundant?
What is a Narrative?
describing a single location, object, event, person, or place.
Descriptive
a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
What is Exposition?
Most Exciting Part of the Story
What is Climax?
approaching or entering a place.
What is Access?
specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
What is Drama?
an account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
all of the events that lead to the eventual climax
What is Rising Action?
a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word
What is Synonym?
give up completely
What is Abandon?
form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language
What is Poetry?
Literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reason and logic
What is Persuasive?
what happens near the end of a story after the climax and resolution of the major conflict.
What is Falling action?
when you describe something by comparing it to something else.
What is Figurative Language?
Severe Pain
What is anguish?
based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is non-fiction?
Writing that explains, informs, or describes and is of superior or lasting artistic merit.
What is Expository?
the end of the story.
What is Resolution?
the use of words to create a connection to any of the five senses.
What is Sensory Language?
anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
What is apprehensive?
literature created from the imagination.
What is fiction?
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
Moat important part of story.
What is climax?