| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Plot | The series of events that take place in the story |
| Antagonist | The major character-in a narrative or drama who works against the hero. |
| Characterization | The act of creating and developing a character by showing or telling what the character looks like, says, or does. |
| setting | the time and place where a plot takes place |
| Character | A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| Point of View | The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader. Main types are 1st person, 2nd person and 3rd person. |
| Flashback | the scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
| atmosphere mood | the feeling you get when you read a story |
| tone | reflection of a writer's or speakers attitude toward the subject |
| conflict | The struggle within the plot between opposing forces. |
| climax | the turning point in a plot |
| theme | message or main idea in a piece of literature, what the author wants us to know about the truth of the story |
| alliteration | The repitition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
| rhyme | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| idiom | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up |
| connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested |
| denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression |
| connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement for effect. |
| sarcasm | mocking or sneering remarks that are meant to hurt or make someone feel foolish |
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