Kulas - Literary Terms

__________ refers to the time and place of the action in the story or other piece of literature

Anxiety or apprehension resulting from uncertain or mysterious situations is known as:

Conversation between characters, usually set off by quotation marks is known as:

_______ _________ is a mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character

_______ _________ happens when our words do not match reality. "Wow, this meal looks great," he said to the empty table.

A _________ is usually an object (but sometimes a person or place), that represents something beyond itself

The vantage point, or perspective, from which a story is told is called:

_______ _________ happens when the reader/audience knows more about the plot than the characters do...

_______ is a writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events that will happen later in the story, heightening suspense

A _______ is a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect

_______ _________ is when something happens that is very different to what was expected.

A person who takes part in the action of the story (or novel or play); they can also be animals or imaginary creatures

_______ refers to the main message or life lesson that the author expresses to the reader through character and plot

The ways a writer shows what a character is like is called__________. (How they speak, think, look, and act, etc.)

_______ _________ is a struggle that occurs between a character and oustide forces (other characters, environment, etc.)

An occurrence in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current point in the story is...