Characters
What is the literary element that means the main character?
Protagonist
What is the literary element that means "the narrator's voice"?
What literary element means the time, place, situation?
Setting
What literary element means afigure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike subjects?
Simile
What literary term means intentional exaggeration for emphasis?
Hyperbole
What is the literary element that means a character or force in conflict with the protagonist?
Antagonist
What is the kind of narrator when someone is not always perceptive about what's going on is a story or who is deliberartely not telling the truth?
Unreliable Narrator
What literary element is the FUEL of the narrative, a struggle between opposing forces, basis of action?
Conflict/Problem
What literary elements means a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else (without using like or as)
Metaphor
What literary element means reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art?
Allusion
What type of character is seen as one-dimensional?
Flat
What type of characterization is when the author uses methods to SHOW what the character is like - speech, actions, appearance, thoughts, response of others
Indirect Characterization
What literary element means hints of events to come?
Foreshadowing
What literary terms means figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics?
What literary element means a play on the multiple meanings of words or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings?
What is a character that does not change called?
Static
What type of characterization is when the author TELLS the reader directly what the character is like
Direct Characterization
What literary element means differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention?
What literary element means using of words to create word pictures--images—that capture and communicate experience?
What literary element means a combination of seemingly contradictory words, such as “loving hate”?
Oxymoron
What is the character who is contrasted with another?
Foil
What is the literary element that means a meesage about life which the story teaches
Theme
What literary element means the overall atmosphere or the emotional feeling that a work evokes in the reader?
Mood
What literary element means use of one thing to stand for or represent another?
Symbolism
What literary element means a commonly used expression whose intended meaning is different from its literal meaning?
Idiom