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Literary Terms
ESL Grade 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| plot | a sequence of connected events in a fictional story; has characters and a main problem or conflict |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces; it causes the action of most stories, novels, and plays |
| character | a person or animal that takes part in the action |
| setting | the time and place of action |
| characterization | the creation and development of a character in a story |
| alliteration | the poetic use of two or more words that begin with the same sound |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| mood | the feeling that a literary work or passage created |
| personification | giving human qualities to animals or things |
| theme | the central and dominating idea in a literary work |
| genre | a type of literature such as poetrty, prose (fiction and nonfiction) and drama (plays) |
| flashback | an interruption in the events in a story to tell about something that happened in the past |