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Literary Terms
| Setting | Place and Time |
| Characterization | - what the character looks like: age and physical description |
| Characterization | - the way an author reveals a character’s personality |
| Characterization | - what the character thinks or says |
| Characterization | - what the character does |
| Characterization | - what others think/say about the character |
| Characterization | - what the author tells the reader directly |
| Conflict | A problem or struggle between two forces -Internal Conflict: a struggle within a character’s own mind. Character vs. self |
| Conflict | External Conflict: a struggle with some force outside of the character - character vs. character, nature, society, technology, or supernatural being |
| Suspense | The feeling that a reader experiences when he or she is uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
| Situational Irony | When the opposite of what the reader expects to happen, actually happens |
| Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, piece of art/music, or historical/mythological/Biblical event or person |
| Theme | The main message or life lesson that the author is presenting to the reader |
| Plot | The order of events in a story - 1. Exposition 2. Rising action 3. Turning Point 4. Falling action. 5. Resolution |
| Parts of the plot | 1. Exposition - background information 2. Rising Action - events (conflicts & complications) that lead to the turning point 3. Turning point - a moment of great tension and decisive action when the end becomes unavoidable 4. Falling Action - events (an |
| Foreshadowing | Hints or clues about future events in the story |
| Flashback | A scene that interrupts the action to show an event that happened at an earlier time |
| Dramatic Irony | When the he reader knows more than the characters in the story |
| Points of View | Perspective from which the story is told 1st Person (i, me, mine, we, us, our) 3rd Person (he, she, they, his, hers, theirs) Ask Yourself: WHO is telling the story? |
| Verbal Irony | When characters intentionally say the opposite of what they mean, how they feel, or what their actions show |
| Symbol | An object, person, place, or action that has meaning by itself AND stands for something larger (such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value) EX: a rose represents love |
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