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Literary Terms

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Mood The feeling the reader gets from a text. Authors use setting, word choice, and story events to create the mood.
Tone The feeling the author or a character has about the topic they are writing or speaking about. Authors can use word choice here as well to create the tone.
Plot/Story Structure The events that happen in a story. This can include the exposition, rising, action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Dialogue/Use of Language/Word Choice The words spoken within a piece. These are usually in quotation marks, but can sometimes be italicized to show the conversation is different from the rest of the text.
Conflict A problem that arises in a story. It’s hard to write anything interesting without a problem that needs to be solved.
Detail v. Central Idea The Central Idea is the big idea. What is the text about. The details refers to all of the information provided that creates that big central idea.
Figurative Language Any language that is not meant to be taken literally. Gives the reader more information about what it’s describing and makes the writing more beautiful.
Speaker/Narrator Whoever is telling the story. This can be the author, but isn’t necessarily the author.
Author's Purpose Refers to why the author chose to include something in their writing. Was it to give more information? Make the writing more exciting? Show that the mood is shifting? Introducing a conflict (problem)?
Claim/Evidence Arguable statement like “Cell phones should be allowed in schools!” It is the main argument in an essay. The details (points, reasons, quotes) used to support that claim.
Theme A moral, lesson, or idea that is true to the story/poem and could be true to or applied as a piece of advice to life.
POV/Perspective Usually refers to how a story is told (i.e. 1st person, 3rd person etc.)
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