Middle school ELA Literary Terms

A fictional story, usually with animals, that teaches a lesson...

Events that help predict what will happen later in the story.

The time and the place of the story.

The plot and solution have unfurled completely.

The story of a person's life as told by someone else.

The events in the story that follows the author’s outline.

The opposition to the main character in a story.

The turning point in the story.

A problem in a story between characters.

The main character in the story.

A brief story about an interesting or amusing event.

Writing that is not meant to be taken literally.

Infographics, recipes, owner's manual, newspaper, travel brochure are all forms of..

Hints in the text that helps a reader understand a difficult or unusual word.

The lesson of a myth or folktale

Writing that is not true.

Words/conversations that are spoken between characters.

Words that mimic sounds

The problem in the story.

comparison of two unlike things that does NOT use like or as.

Young man in conflict with his brother.

All the following are examples of nonfiction except...

The author's lesson that you learn from the story.

Tone is…

Figurative language that is an over-the-top exaggeration.

Two ideas are presented for their similarities and their differences.

Language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

A poetry paragraph is...

Figurative language that is a comparison using "like or as."

An advertisement is written to…

A newspaper is written to …

A situation is presented that needs a resolution.

An affix added to the beginning of a root word

a word/phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses.

The reason an author writes (PIE).

Mood is…

Writing that is true.

A figure of speech that references another person, place, thing, or event.

The repetition of the first consonant sounds in two or more words...

Figurative language that gives non-human things, human qualities.

An affix added to the end of a root word

The use of anything to represent something else.

This plot begins to work itself out.

Type of literature that is meant to be acted on a stage.

A scene in a story that relates past events.

Relationship between an event and the reasons why the event occurred.

All of the following are examples of fiction except for...

A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.

The beginning of the story; introduces the setting and characters.

The narrator is all knowing; they know the thoughts of everyone in story.

1st person or 3rd person are examples of...

The story of a person's life that is told by that person himself/herself.

The feeling created in the story.

Basing a conclusion on personal opinion rather than on the facts.

Words that have similar meanings

When the narrator is in the story.

Falling action is

A pattern in non-fiction text in which ideas are presented step by step.