Literature Vocabulary - Middle School - Part 1

This is the category or type of literature.

This goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings.

This is the reference to a person, place, or event with which a reader is likely to be familiar

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

This includes great masterpieces of the Greek, Roman, and other ancient civilizations.

The main problem in a literary work is called the major ____.

This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

This involves one or more reasons to lead the reader to a conclusion on an issue.

This is forming a broad idea or opinion based on specific instances.

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are DIFFERENT.

This is when the audience or the readers know something that the characters do not know.

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text, or drama.

This is information from the text that supports a thought or belief.

This is the meaning which surrounds a specific word,sentence, idea, or passage.

This is when you use pieces of information to base youropinion. You draw a ________.

These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work.

This is the reason for creating written work – to inform, entertain, or persuade.

This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a character is like.

This is the theme of a story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life.

This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea.

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

This is reading between the lines. 

This is a point of view in which the story is told by one of the characters.