Lit. Terms 8th grade

  • Interruption in the present action to show events that happened at an earlier time

 The way a writer or speaker sounds; the attitude they have about their subject

  • An account of somebody’s life written by that person

 The character or force that opposes (is against) the protagonist

  • The general idea, or insight that a work of literature reveals

 • The use of clues or hints to show what will happen later

  • An account of somebody’s life written by another person

   The main, or central character in a work of literature 

 Narrator that focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

   • The feeling that a work of literature is supposed to create in the reader

    • A second and less important story within a story

 The point of greatest suspense or interest in a literary work

  • Prose that deals with real people, things, events, and places

 A person or animal (or thing) portrayed in a story or other literary work 

   • A novel, play, short story, or poem with fictional characters, in a true time in history  

 An expression particular to a certain group, not to be taken literally

 • A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain place or group of people

 • The sequence of events in a story

 A narrator that knows everything about all the characters

 • Language that appeals to the senses; creating a picture with words

  • A short story with a moral

   A meaning, relationship, or emotion associated with a word or phrase

 • A contrast between what you think will happen, and what actually happens

 • A prose account that is made up rather than true

 • The reasons characters behave the way they do

  • A short piece of nonfiction prose dealing with a specific topic

  • A writer’s choice of words to fit their context

  • A story that explains something, and often involves gods or heroes

  • A conversation between two or more characters

  • Writing intended to recreate a person, place, thing, experience or event

    • A kind of writing that tells a story

 • The part of a literary  work in which the  setting and character are made known  

   The dictionary definition of a word

  When a narrator is a character in the story

  • The point in a literary work when the conflict is resolved (settled)