ELA Test Prep Review (Literary Terms)

A person or an animal who takes part in the action of a story

The comparison of two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

Feelings or ideas associated with a word (your definition)

Identify the adjective: No one wanted to live by the smelly landfill.

When the author gives clues and hints as to what might happen later in the story

A category or type of literature (fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, etc)

A speaker or character who tells a story

A well-developed character- you know a lot about them

What is another word for PERSUADE?

A person, object or action that represents something else

Which type of conflict is this? The Batman tries to capture or kill the Joker.

Story with magic and things that wouldn't exist in today's world.

Genre with informational facts

Identify the verb: I ate a taco yesterday.

In favor of or against one thing unfairly

Struggle between opposing forces

The turning point or high point in a story

The narrator is in the story and uses words like I, ME, MINE, WE, US

The overall atmosphere of a literary work (how the reader feels)

A character who changes during the story

Fictional characters with events in a historical setting

The use of words to imitate sounds (bang, pow, pop...)

Which type of conflict is this? Another classmate is spreading rumors about you.

Identify the verb(s): I ran like the wind today.

The narrator is NOT in the story and only knows ONE person's thoughts and feelings

Identify the nouns: Mrs. Bamer is our school secretary.

The narrator is NOT in the story and knows EVERYONE'S thoughts and feelings

Which type of conflict is this? Sam got arrested for stealing a car.

The writer's attitude toward the subject they're writing about

A story that takes place in the future and has scientific advances in technology

Adjectives? An old and overweight dog sat under the bright sun.

The comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

Time and place of a story

When an author interrupts the present moment to tell what happened in the past

A character you only know 1 or 2 things about

The message or moral in a story

What is the dictionary definition of a word called?

Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

A character who stays the same during the story

Which type of conflict is this? I went skiing and there was an avalanche.

The sequence of events in a literary work

What type of conflict? Suzy is sooo nervous about asking out David to the dance.

Words with repeated beginning sounds (ex: sally sells seashells)

A conversation between characters