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Literary Elements
Elements of Fiction/Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the main character or the one most central to the action of the story | protagonist |
| the person, thing, or force working against the protagonist | antagonist |
| the author's reason for creating a work | author's purpose |
| a person, animal, or imaginary creature that takes part in the action of the story | character |
| the techniques an author uses to develop the personality of a character in a literary work | characterization |
| the author tells you what to feel or think about a character | direct characterization |
| the author gives you information about a character through actions, dialogue, thoughts, feelings, and interactions that allow the reader to form an opinion | indirect characterization |
| the most important character(s) | main character |
| less important---they interact with the main characters and one another, but readers don't know much about them | minor character |
| characters that stay the same throughout the story | static character |
| characters that change from beginning to end---often they will learn something | dynamic character |
| the words that characters speak---can move the plot along and reveal a lot about characters | dialogue |
| a form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people | dialect |
| the feeling that the work gives to readers | mood |
| the action or sequence of events in a story | plot |
| the first part of plot---setting, characters and background information are all introduced | exposition |
| the event that introduces the central conflict | inciting incident |
| series of conflicts or struggles that build the story toward its climax---tension rises | rising action |
| the high point or turning point of the story---the last big event dealing with the conflict | climax |
| the action that begins to settle the conflict | falling action |
| the ending----brings the story to a satisfactory close | resolution |
| the problem of the story---the action is centered around it | conflict |
| problem with another character | person vs. person |
| problem with the laws or beliefs of a group of people | person vs. society |
| problem with the environment | person vs. nature |
| problem deciding what to do or think | person vs. self |
| problem that seems to be uncontrollable | person vs. fate |
| the perspective from which a story is told | point of view |
| story is told by one of the characters | first person point of view |
| story is told by a narrator who is not a character in the story | third person point of view |
| the time and place in which the action of the story occurs | setting |
| a person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else | symbol |
| the statement or lesson about life that the author wants to convey to the reader---similar to a moral | theme |
| the category or type of literature | genre |
| the author interrupts the sequence of events in the story to tell about something in the past | flashback |
| the author gives hints or clues about what might happen in the future | foreshadowing |
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