Literary Terms
This is giving human traits or emotions to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
This is the main idea of a text or passage.
What is the central idea?
This term refers to the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
Stories that are made up and are not based on real events are called what?
What is fiction?
The part of speech that describes a noun is called what?
What is an adjective?
A comparison using "like" or "as" is called what?
What is a simile?
This technique helps to make predictions about what will happen next in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
This term should be used for the person or group opposing the main character.
What is the antagonist?
This genre includes real-life stories about people’s lives.
What is biography?
This part of speech is used to connect words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
Words that appeal to the senses and create vivid imagery in the reader's mind are called what?
What are sensory words?
This term refers to the question of why the author wrote a specific text.
What is the author's purpose?
The turning point or most intense moment in a story is known as what?
What is climax?
A story that is written in verse is known as what type of literature?
What is poetry?
A word that takes the place of a noun is called what?
What is a pronoun?
The main message or insight about life that a story conveys is known as what?
What is theme?
A summary of a story includes the key events without the details; it is known as what?
What is a synopsis?
This is the part of the story that ties up loose ends and brings resolution.
What is falling action?
This genre often involves fantastical elements and imaginary worlds.
What is fantasy?
A group of words that does not express a complete thought is known as what?
What is a sentence fragment?
This is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
This is a conclusion drawn from evidence presented in a text.
What is an inference?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story is called what?
What is conflict?
Literature that is based on true events but includes imaginary details is called what?
What is historical fiction?
The group of words that expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and predicate is known as what?
What is a sentence?