Literary Terms

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

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

A technique used to interest the reader and keep her guessing

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

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

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

When something occurs that is contrary to what one expects

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

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

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

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

The perspective from which a story is told is called

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

A poem "paragraph" is called 

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

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

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

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

Conversation between characters is called...

The poetic use of words to create mental images is called

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

The struggle between opposing forces in a story is called

The author's attitude toward her subject matter is 

The main character in a story is called...

A literary exaggeration is called....

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

The character who tells a story is called

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

The character who opposes the main character is called

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