Literature Vocabulary - Middle School - Part 1

This is when the audience or the readers know something that the characters do not know.

This is the theme of a story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life.

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are DIFFERENT.

This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

This involves one or more reasons to lead the reader to a conclusion on an issue.

This is reading between the lines. 

This is information from the text that supports a thought or belief.

This goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings.

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

This is the category or type of literature.

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

This is the reference to a person, place, or event with which a reader is likely to be familiar

This is when you use pieces of information to base youropinion. You draw a ________.

This is a point of view in which the story is told by one of the characters.

These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work.

This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea.

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text, or drama.

This is the reason for creating written work – to inform, entertain, or persuade.

This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a character is like.

This is forming a broad idea or opinion based on specific instances.

The main problem in a literary work is called the major ____.

This is the meaning which surrounds a specific word,sentence, idea, or passage.

This includes great masterpieces of the Greek, Roman, and other ancient civilizations.