| Term | Definition |
|---|
| nonfiction | writing that tells about real people, places, and events |
| biographies | tells the story of someone's life and are told from the perspective of another writer |
| fiction | a literary work that is made up; created in someone's mind; not based entirely on truth |
| 3rd person point of view | when a story is told from the perspective of a narrator that is outside the action of the story |
| 1st person point of view | the narrator is a character in the story (I, me, we, our) |
| plot | series of events or things that happens in a story |
| setting | time and place of the story |
| narrator | speaker of the story |
| Autobiographies | written by an aurthor about his/her life |
| novels | long works of fiction |
| what is a Literary Genre? | it is a division or type of literature |
| plot diagram | exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
| conflict | a struggle between opposite forces |
| internal conflict | takes place within the mind of the character |
| external conflict | a struggle between a character and an outside force, such as another person |
| irony | a contridiction between what happens and what is expected |
| situational irony | occurs when something happens that directly attracts the expectations of the other characters or the audiance |
| verbal irony | is something contridictionary that is said |
| character | a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
| triats | Variation of a particular characterists. |
| modivation | the reason that explains or particularly explains a characters thoughts, feelings, actions,and speach |
| characterization | the act of creating and developing a character |
| indirect characterization | when the aurthor depends on the reader to draw conclclusions about the characters traits |
| direct characterization | the aurthor states the characters traits or characteristics |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character or protagnist |
| protagnist | main character |
| forshadowing | the aurthors use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen next |
| flashback | the scene within the story that enterupts the sequence of events relate to events that occured |
| diologe | a conversation between characters |
| theme | the centeral message in a literary work |
| point of view / narrorator | 1st person; 3rd person |
| aurthors purpose | is his/her reason for writing |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |
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