25 Lit Terms

The narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist.

The repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence.

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

To describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. 

The idea that things represent other things.

Time and place of the story.

To derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.

The sequence of events that shape a broader narrative, with every event causing or affecting each other.

Used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words.

A type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline.

Explains two things without using like or as. 

A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.

Where the narrator knows everything about the events, characters, and world in the story.

To select a passage for quoting.

The choice and use of words in writing or speech. 

Interrupts the “present” line of the story to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.

Uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective. 

The stylistic means by which an author conveys his/her attitude(s) in a work of literature.

Situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result.

Writing that exposes facts. In other words, it's writing that explains and educates its readers.

Brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.

Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Supernatural.

Comparing two unlike things using like or as.