Literary Terms

The underlying idea of a literary work is called....

The struggle between opposing forces in a story is called

The essential background information given at the beginning of a literary work is called....

Language that is meant to be interpreted, NOT taken literally is called...

A comparison NOT using like or as is called....

A technique used to interest the reader and keep her guessing

The poetic use of words to create mental images is called

A technique that involves a break from the current action to tell of earlier events

A reference (in a literary work) to another literary work is called...

When something occurs that is contrary to what one expects

All of the following words can be used for the end of a literary work with the exception of....

The use of similar sounds at the beginning of connected words is called

When a character says one thing but means another, it is called...

 A specific type of literary (fiction) work is called a ....

The main character in a story is called...

The perspective from which a story is told is called

The time and place of a story is called....

The feelings created in a reader by a literary work are called....

The character who opposes the main character is called

A comparison between two objects using like or as is called....

When the author gives clues about something to come, it is called...

A literary exaggeration is called....

Conversation between characters is called...

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects is called....

The character who tells a story is called

When an author uses an object to stand for something else, the object becomes a ....

The author's attitude toward her subject matter is 

The turning point, or the point of greatest tension in a story is called....

A poem "paragraph" is called 

This is the word for what happens in a story; the storyline