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Literary Terms
ELA
Term | Definition |
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Characterization | - physical description & personality of a character. |
Theme | - central message, purpose, or concern in a literary work. |
Setting | - time, place, and general environment of a literary work. |
Tone | - author's attitude towards the story. |
Plot | - sequence of events in a literary work. |
Satire | - literature that makes fun of someone or something. |
Fantasy | - literature that contains events, etc, not found in real life. |
Suspense | - a felling of anxious uncertainty about what may outcome of events. |
Climax | - the highest point/turning point, in a literary work. |
Conflict | - the problem in the story. |
Conflict Resolution | - the part in the story where the problem has been resolved. |
Symbol | - something that represents something else. |
Voice | - the personality of the author coming threw the words. |
Point of View | - who is telling the story. |
Mood | - the climate of feeling in the story created by the author's choice of details, objects, works, and setting. |