Literary Terms

The author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

Screenplays, teleplays, and radio­plays are all examples of

A type of fiction that combines elements of fiction and fantasy, which can be set in thefuture.

The central message in a literary work.

the people who perform in the play.

The main character in a literary work.

A brief work of fiction that presents a sequence of events that communicates a central message.

the author of a play

The ordinary form of the written language, but is not poetry or drama.

The struggle between two opposing forces

story that is made up but is setin the past and borrows true characteristics of the time period

Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses

Acts are often divided into parts called

 Prose writing that presents ideas that tells about real people, places,objects, or events.

Anything that stands for or represents something else

A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

 A long work of fiction that has a plot and may contain subplots and may have severalthemes.

 A reason that explains/ partially explains a character’s thoughts, feelings, actions, orspeech

 Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

A speaker or a character who tells a story.

 The time and place of a story of the action in a literary work

important part of a drama because it advances the story’saction.

A division of literature

The act of creating and developing a character.

The perspective which a story is told. 

A person or animal featured in the action of a story

A character or a force in conflict with a main character

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work

the interruption of the sequence of events to relate events that occurredin the past

the bracketed information that describe thescenery and how the characters should move and speak

the playwright’s technique for creating believable characters

The writer’s attitude towards his subject

contrasted with comedy and the events lead to the downfall of the main character.

a story told through dialogue by performers in front of anaudience.

the units of action in a drama.

the term used for the construction on a stagethat suggests time and place of the action.

form of drama that has a happy ending, and often featuresnormal characters in funny situations