Literary terms

The conversation of characters in a literary work.

A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work.

The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue

The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, background information is provided

The implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author.

The means by which writers present and reveal character.

a character or force against which another character struggles

The angle of vision from which a story is narrated.

The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story.

The implied attitude of the author toward the subject and characters of a work.

The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. There are 5 points in the plot structure

The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.

In the plot of a story , the action following the climax of the work that moves to resolution.

The means by which writers present and reveal character.

The resolution of the plot of a literary work.

An imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama.

The main character of a literary work.

The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story.

A set of conflicts that constitute the part of a story’s plot leading up to the climax.

An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary characters may be major or minor

A subsidiary, subordinate, in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.

The time and place of a literary work that establish its context.