AWESOME LITERARY TERMS

character

• Definition
• THE WAY SOMEONE THINKS, FEELS, AND BEHAVES
• Example:
• Peter Pan is a fun, crazy, and kind person.

CLIMAX

• Definition
• the most exciting and important part of a story, play, or movie
• Example
• In the first scene of the act,
• Romeo challenges Tybalt to a duel after he (Tybalt) killed Mercutio

CONFLICT

• The problem in a story
• Example
• Man.vs.him/herself
• Elsa has to try to figure out how to control her power
• Man.vs. scoiety

CONFLICT CONT'

• Girl.vs. The school board
• Man.vs.man
• Fist fighting
• Man.vs.nature
• Man.vs. Earthquake

CONFLICT CONT'

• Man.vs.fate
• Man.vs. Diabetes

DIALECT

• Form of language that is spoken in a particular
• place or by a particular group of people
• Example
• Hispanic people speak Spanish

DIALOGUE

• When someone speaks in a story
• Example
• "Say your prays Hook!" Said Peter Pan

FLASHBACK

• A memory
• Example
• Hollis woods remember steven and that old man.

FORESHADOWING

• When a writer provides hints that suggest
• Future events in a story
• Example
• Little red riding hood's mom warns her
• before going into the woods

HYPERBOLE

• FIgure of speech in which the truth is
• exaggerated for emphasis or humirous effect
• Example
• My foot was as flat as a pancake

IDIOM

• An expression that has a meaning
• different from it's individual words
• Example
• "Crossing alot of red tape" means
• "Doing alot of paper work"

IMAGERY

• Words or phrases that appeal to a readers
• Five senses
• "I could smell that pizza in the oven"

IRONY

• The use of words that mean opposite of what you really
• Think especially in order to be funny
• Example
• To say you got a "A" on a test when you got a "B"

METAPHOR

• Comparison of two objects without
• "Like" or "as"
• Example
• You hear that elephant in the hallway that
• Is Mrs.D

MOOD

• The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates
• For a reader
• Example
• When you read "The boy fell down a hole" you feel sad

NARRATOR

• The voice that tell the story
• Example
• "Once upon a time"

PERSONIFICATION

• When an un-human object is
• given human qualities
• Example
• The desk sneezed

PLOT

• The series of events in a story
• Example
• Little red riding hood went into the
• Forest and then entered her grandma's house
• Introduction

PLOT CONT'

• The beginning of the story
• Conflict
• Climax
• Resolution
• How the problem is solved

PLOT CONT'

• Conclusion
• The ending of the story

POINT OF VIEW

• How a writer chooses to narrarate a story
• Example
• "The Pictures Of Hollis Woods" is shown in
• Hollis' point of view

SETTING

• The place where a story is held
• Example
• "Somewhere in the middle of nowhere lies a farm"

SIMILIE

• A comparison of two things WITH
• "Like" or "as"
• She's busy AS a bee

SUSPENSE

• The feeling of growing tension and
• excitement felt by a reader
• Example
• No one knows who killed the lady

SYMBOL

• An object that represents something
• Example
• The bald eagle represents freedom

THEME

• A message about life or a human nature that
• the writer shares with the reader
• Example
• Never run with scissors in your hand

TONE

• Work expresses the writers's attitude toward
• His or her subject
• The writer writes angrily when the girl is kidnapped