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L.A. Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The reference to a famous person. | Allusion |
| The highest point of suspense. | Climax |
| A form of language as it is spoken in a certain place or among a certain group of people. It has its own Punctuations, spellings, and expressions. | Dialect |
| The character that changes a lot in the story. | Dialect Character |
| Sequence of related events that make up a story: its the action or what happens in the story. Most follow a regular pattern. | Plot |
| The final stage in which loose ends are tied up and the story is brought to a close. | Resolution |
| The comparison of 2 unlike things. Such as like, as, or resemblles. | Simile |
| Anything that stands for or represents something else. | Symbol |
| Connecting words that let readers know how ideas are related. | Transitions |
| Time and place of action of the story, poem, or play. | Setting |
| The main character. | Protagonist |
| The kind of writing that tells a story. | Narrative |
| A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens. | Irony |
| Words and phrases that appeal to the readers senses. | Imagery |
| Prose writing that tells an imaginary story. | Fiction |
| A person, animal, or imaginary creature that takes part in the action or the literary work. | Character |
| The person or force that works against the protagonist. | Antagonist |
| A struggle between 2 opposing forces. | Conflict |
| A scene in literary work that interrupts the present action to describe an event that took place at an earlier time. | Flashback |
| The term used to identify the major categories of literature. | Genre |
| A logical guess or conclusion based on the evidence. | Inference |
| The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. | Personification |
| A comparison of 2 unlike things that haves some quality in common. | Metaphor |
| The repeated use of any element of language- a sound, a word, a line, or a grammatical structure. | Repetition |
| A work of fiction that can generally be read in one sitting. | Short Story |
| The feeling of growing tension and excitement felt my a reader. | Suspense |
| Refers to the techniques a writer uses to create and develop a character. | Characterization. |
| A picture in words or a scene, a character, or an object. | Descriptive |
| Get a clearer understanding. | Clarify |
| A conversation between 2 or more characters. | Dialogue |
| Goes beyond dictionary meaning of words to create fresh and original descriptions. | Figurative Language |
| Refers to a writers use of hints that suggests events that'll occur later in the story. | Foreshadowing |
| The central idea that a writer expresses in his or her work. | Main Idea |
| A lesson or guide for living that you can apply to your own life. | Moral |
| Perspective from which the story was told. | Point of View |
| The character that changed little or not at all during the story. | Static Character |
| To tell briefly in your own words the main ideas to a piece of writing, omitting to unimportant details. | Summarize |
| The message about life or human nature communicated by a work or literature. | Theme |
| Set in as the character try to resolve the conflict. | Complication |
| Introduces the characters and the conflict they face. | Exposition |
| A feeling created in the reader by a literary work. | Mood |
| The work of fiction that no longer and more complex than a short story. | Novel |
| Post writing that presents and explains ideas about real people, places, objects, and events. | Non-Fiction |
| Writing that is mean to make its audience adopt a certain opinion, or perform an action, or do both. | Persuasion |
| The narrator is one of the characters in the story and uses pronouns such as I, me, and we. The reader sees the events of the story and other characters only trough the eyes of the narrator. | First Person |
| The narrator brings us into the mind of only one character. | Third Person Limited |
| The narrator is not in the story and related the story using pronouns such as he, she, or it. | Third Person |
| The all knowing point of view. The Narrator knows everything about the characters and can see into their mind. | Third Person Omniscient |
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