Literary Terms

mood is often created through all of these except ...

using hints or clues to suggest future action

a writer's characteristic manner of employing language

the central message of a literary work

atmosphere or predominant emotion aroused in the reader

a scene that interrupts the action to show a previous event

The main purpose of rising action

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

the audience knows something, but the character doesn't know it

the writer doesn't REALLY mean it

giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

Authors build suspense by doing all of the following except

a synonym for sensory detail

writer's attitude toward subject

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

sequence of events in a literary work; the storyline

method an author uses to describe characters and their personalities

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

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

descriptive words and phrases that appeal to senses