Literary Terms
Key vocabulary review
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- The sequence of events in a story
- The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative
- A reference to something else
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds
- The character that is directly opposed to the protagonist (a rival, opponent, enemy)
- Person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
- Struggle between opposing forces (internal or external)
- Spoken conversation between characters
- An interruption in the major action of a story, to show an episode that happened at an earlier time and place
- Clues in the text about incidents that will occur later in the plot
- A division or type of literature (biography, drama, fable)
- An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words
- Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind
- The overall feeling or atmosphere the writer creates in a work through the choice of setting, imagery, details
- A speaker or character that tells a story
- The use of words that imitate sounds
- A combination of contradictory terms (silent scream, civil war, jumbo shrimp, freezer burn)
- The perspective or vantage point, from which a story is told
- The main character in a literary work
- The time and place of the action of a story
- Something concrete, such as an object, person, place, that stands for or represents something else
- A type of narrative literature that contains imaginary characters and events
- A type of literature written by someone about his or her own life
- Type of narrative that often involves human suffering, including death, in the story
- Words used to express how the author feels about the text
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