The character who works against the main character and is usually the source of the conflict.
Antagonist
100
The place and time of a story.
What is setting?
100
A category of literature or film.
Genre
100
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
Mood
100
The main idea about life the author is trying to convey in a story.
What is theme?
200
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
200
The strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary regardless of its emotional connotation.
Denotation
200
Exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
200
The part of the story where conflict starts and escalates. These parts are necessary to bring about the climax.
Rising Action
200
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
300
When a literary work (story or poem) is interrupted and refers back to a former time.
What is flashback?
300
The “extra” meaning a word carries beyond its strict dictionary meaning. For example, “home” means the same as “house” but “home” also carries the meaning that certain qualities and personal possessions are also implied.
Connotation
300
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
Falling Action
300
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
400
In the plot of a story, an author may do this to provide hints to future events.
foreshadow
400
A round character who changes or evolves over the course of the story.
Dynamic Character
400
Mental pictures that a reader experiences with a passage of literature.
Imagery
400
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
400
A flat character who does not change or alter his personality over the course of a story.
Static Character
500
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
500
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
500
A minor character in a work of fiction who the reader knows little about, also known as a static character since the reader is not aware of any changes they made.