Language Arts Vocabulary

The protagonist is directly against another character with apparent opposing aims

A person in a story

Exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effect.

Struggle that takes place inside the body and or mind

Two societies are pitted against each other

A character struggles to overcome personal issues

The narrator is in the story (pronouns: I, me, we)

The feelings created in a reader through the literature

A comparison of two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as'.

Comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

struggle that takes place outside of the body

Conversation carried on by one or more characters

The action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.

Clues that suggest events yet to come

The time and place of a literary work

The person or thing that opposes the protagonist

The narrator tells the story by addressing the reader using "you" and "your."

The use of words that imitate sounds, as in buzz, hiss, or murmur

The way an author reveals his characters

Words that create images in the mind

When something is different than it was thought to be

Giving human characteristics to non-human things (ex: the leaves kissed the tree)

The protagonist battles an unjust element of government or culture

An often universal message about life found in literature

The sequence of events in a literary work

The leading character or one of the major characters

The intense feeling that the audience goes through while waiting for the outcome

Pits the protagonist against a natural force

The writer or the speaker's attitude towards the subject of the work