Literary Terms

words that create a mental image, allowing readers to visualize a scene

This part of the story gives the setting, and introduces characters and conflicts

The main character in a story

This part of the story includes suspense and complications

When there is a difference between what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens

"You're a sunflower"- Post Malone

The clouds danced across the horizon.

When the writer or speaker says one thing but means something totally different

"I love you like a love song baby." -Selena Gomez

The author's reason(s) for using imagery can be called...

When a character struggles against opposing desires, needs, or emotions

A character who has many different traits and depth like a real person

this is when the narrator is a character in the story and uses "I"

When a character struggles against an outside force

A character who only has one or two simple traits; we don't know much about them

In this moment, a character experiences a flashback to an important moment.

A character who changes as a result of the story's events

Useful hints in a story to clue the reader into what will happen next

Narrator is not in the story, but zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

In this kind of moment, a character reveals (either directly or indirectly) what they want most

In this moment, a character struggles with who they are or how the world sees them.

The person or force working against the main character

Something or someone in a story that stands for something else

The part of the story where all problems are over & we know what will happen to the characters

When the audience or reader knows something important that a character does not

The series of events that make up the story

A character who does not change much through the course of the story

This is the tense/ exciting moment is close to the end, where we find out the conflict outcome

Avery ate all of Anna's apples again.

When a writer tells us directly what a character is like

Narrator is not in the story, but knows all, and can tell us what all characters think and feel

The central idea of a literary work

when the reader gets to imagine how the character speaks, looks, dresses

Words that the author uses to create an image

The way you feel when reading a section of text.

The narrator is not aware of what is going on in a story or is not telling the whole truth