A-C
The character who works against the main character and is usually the source of the conflict.
Antagonist
The part of the story where setting, characters, and background information is established.
Exposition
A category of literature or film.
Genre
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
Mood
An affix that comes after the base word to create a new word, such as forget + able = forgettable.
Suffix
From the Greek word for ladder, it is the moment in a story when the conflict or crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is usualy the turning point in the story's action.
Climax
Who is Ritchie Parker?
The man with no arms.
Exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
The part of the story where conflict starts and escalates. These parts are necessary to bring about the climax.
Rising Action
A major character in a work of fiction whom the reader knows much about, also known as a dynamic character since the reader is aware of the changes they made.
Round Character
A word formed from the first letters in a phrase. For example, RADAR is word that was formed from the phrase “Radio Detection and Ranging.
Acronym
What is an Uncle Tom?
A person who freed the slaves.
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
Falling Action
A base morpheme without affixes attached to it or a word from an older language that has become the source for words in a newer language, such as Greek words are a source for English words.
Root
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The way an author conveys his/her attitude about particular characters and subject matter. In poetry, it is called “voice.” It is the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s].
Tone
What role does Batman play?
Protagonist
What is the person in a text or movie called?
Character
Mental pictures that a reader experiences with a passage of literature.
Imagery
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. …Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
Personification
A flat character who does not change or alter his personality over the course of a story.
Static Character
A reference to something famous to make a point. For example, if your teacher calls your class a horde of Mongols, students would have no idea if they were being praised or reprimanded unless they know what the Mongol horde was.
Allusion
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: In many medieval literature pieces, a raven, a wolf, eagle or vulture appear and because these creatures scavenge bodies of fallen warriors, they allow the reader to predict a battle is about to begin.
Foreshadowing
When was the first year the Oscar's was presented?
1929
Words or phrases used by a particular group of professionals or other defined group, such as urban teenagers would use these phrases or words not commonly used by rural teenagers.
Jargon
An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern that may be subdivisions of a poem.
Stanza