Question | Answer |
Antagoinist | A charcter in force with a main character or protagonist |
Autobiography | A story of the writers own life told by the writer |
Biography | A form of non fiction in which a writer tells a story about another person |
Character | A person or an animal that takes part in a story |
Climax | A high point in the action of the plot |
Conflict | Struggle between opposing forces |
Dialect | A form of language spoken by people |
Dialogue | a conversation between two or more characters |
Drama | A story made to be preformed by actors |
Exposition | This is a part that introduces characters |
External Conflict | When a charcter struggles against a force |
Fable | A brief story or poem |
Fantasy | A highly imanginative writing that contains elements not in real life |
Fiction | A not true story something that can't be proven |
Folk Tale | A story composed orally and then passed down to generations by mouth |
Foreshawdoing | An authors use of clues to tell whats going to happen later on in the book |
Genre | A division type of literature |
Haiku | A three line Japanesse verse form when the first and third lines is 5 syllables and the second line is 7 syllables |
Hero/Heroine | A charcters whos actions are inspiring |
Historical Fiction | Real events, places, or people are incorporated in a fictional made up story |
Internal Conflict | A place within the mind of a character |
Irony | A contradiction between what happens and what is expected |
Legend | A widley told story about the past |
Main Character | The main person in a story |
Metaphor | A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
Mood | A feeling created in the reader |
Moral | A lesson taught by literary work |
Motive | A reason that explains a characters thoughts or feelings |
Myth | A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heros or the origins of elements of nature |
Narrative | A story that can be fiction or non fiction |
Non Fiction | A story that is true and can be proven |
Onomatopoeia | A use of words that imitate sounds |
Oral Tradition | The passing of stories, songs, and poems from generation to gerneration by mouth |
Personification | A type of figurtiave language |
Perspective | The way a guy or girl sees things |
Plot | The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next |
Point of View | The perspective or the vantage point |
Protagonist | The main character in literary work |
Resolution | The outcome of the conflict in the plot |
Science Fiction | Combines Science fanatsy and fiction |
Sensory Language | Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
Simile | A figure of speech that uses like or as |
Symbolism | The use of symbols |
Theme | A central message, concern, or purpose in literary work |
Tone | The writers attitude toward the writing |
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