Traditional Literature

A character who has an important inner change, such as a change in personality or attitude.

Internal conflict; a conflict within a character.

The feeling created in the reader when reading a story.

A narrator tells the story and knows all characters thoughts and feelings.

The events resulting from the climax.

External conflict; a character has a conflict with the government or laws.

The main character in the story who is the "good guy".

A narrator tells the story and focuses on only one character's thoughts and feelings.

Figurative language that gives human like characteristics to things that are not human.

Background information within a story; information about the setting and characters.

Literature in the form of short stories and novels that describes imaginary events and people.

The author's message to the reader; the moral or lesson of the story.

External conflict; one character has a conflict with one or more characters.

When an author uses an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story.

A folktale with unbelievable exaggerations told as if it were true and meant to be humorous.

The central part of the story that leads to the climax.

Usually is connected to real historical person or event, with factual and fictional elements.

A character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.

Explains something about the world such as frightening or mysterious natural forces.

A scene in the story that goes back to the past.

Figurative language that makes an exaggeration.

External conflict; a character has a conflict with weather, water, or animals.

A character who has power that assists the hero throughout his/her journey within the story.

A character who is in the story that is telling the story; uses pronouns "I" or "we."

Takes place in a magical land ruled by royalty and the characters are either good or evil.

Events in a story that help the reader predict what will happen next.

Writing strategy that says things that come in threes are naturally funnier or more effective.

The problem in the story.

The author's attitude toward a subject; how the author speaks to the reader.

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

The correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.

The point of the story that ties up all loose ends; the conflict is resolved.

The enemy of the main character; the character who causes the problems.

The turning point of the story.

A short folktale that involves personified animals and teaches a lesson or moral.