Literary Terms

The narrator does not participate in the action of the story as one of the characters

The chain of events which make up the story

A hint at what will happen in the future

The series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax

Revealing a character's personality traits through thoughts, words, actions, appearence, etc.

The attitude a writer takes towards his or her subject, characters, and audience

The conclusion, the tying together of all the threads

An interruption in the present action to show events that happened at an earlier time

Dramatic struggle between two forces; without it, there is no plot

Told from the main character's point of view; uses pronouns like "I", "we", and "my"

The people (or animals, things, etc. presented as people) in a literary work

The feeling a reader gets from the story

All of the action which follows the climax

The time and place of the action

Which of the following is NOT an external conflict

The central idea or lesson about life that a story conveys

The main character in a literary work

Which of the following is an internal conflict

The character who opposes the protagonist

An element that recurs in stories from cultures from many periods of history

The perspective from which the people, events, and details of the story is told

The turning point, most intense moment- either mentally or in action

The author devlops the personality of a character by direct statements

The start of the story, the situation before the action starts