Literary Terms

using hints or clues to suggest future action

speaker says one thing but means another; situation is not as expected

sequence of events in a literary work; the storyline

method an author uses to describe characters and their personalities

person, place, thing, event that has both a meaning in itself & also stands for something else

time and place in which events in the literary work take place

exaggeration or overstatement

a word that imitates the sound it represents

a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art

the perspective from which a narrative is told

a writer's characteristic manner of employing language

giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

a scene that interrupts the action to show a previous

category or type of literature based on style, form, content

words/phrases used to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, ideas appealing to senses

writer's/speaker's attitude on a subject/character/audience thru the choice of words & details

the central message of a literary work

atmosphere or predominant emotion aroused in the reader