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  • Setting
    The time and place of a story
  • Falling Action
    Events after the climax, leading to the resolution
  • Dialogue
    conversation carried on by the characters in a literary work
  • Rising Action
    the stage of the plot that develops the conflict, or struggle.
  • Paraphrase
    writing a text in your own words
  • Non-fiction
    writing about real people, places, things, and events. Essays, news stories, speeches, etc.
  • Antagonist
    a character who opposes the main character
  • Mood
    the emotions the literature makes the reader feel
  • Flashback
    interruption in the narrative to show an instance from the past
  • Novel
    a long work of fiction
  • Monologue
    in drama, an extended speech by one person alone, with or without an audience
  • Imagery
    the sensory details that relate to the senses and create pictures in our minds
  • Allusion
    reference to a well-known person, place, thing, idea, event, etc.
  • Hyperbole
    an extreme exaggeration
  • Alliteration
    the repetition of initial sounds, as in "scorching summer sensations."
  • Author's Purpose
    The reason the author has for writing
  • Onomatopoeia
    words that sound like the thing being spoken about, Boom, Crack, Sizzle, Screech
  • Chronological Order
    (Time Order) Events are arranged in the order in which they happened
  • Figurative Language
    using figures of speech to heighten meaning i.e. metaphor, simile, personification
  • Time-Stamp Poem
  • Resolution
    End of the story where loose ends are tied up
  • Foreshadowing
    a hint to the reader of what is to come
  • Denotation
    a dictionary definition, what the word actually means
  • Plagiarism
    LITERARY THEFT, when a writer duplicates another writer's work without giving proper credit
  • Main Idea
    The message the text is trying to convey.
  • Protagonist
    main character "the good guy"
  • Inform
    To give information
  • Metaphor
    an implied comparison, "A green plant is a machine that runs on solar energy"
  • Theme
    What the author really wants you to take away from the story
  • Personification
    giving human qualities to non-living objects
  • Synonyms
    Words that have similar meanings
  • Plot
    Sequence of events in a story
  • Genre
    a form or type of literature: novel, short story, poem, play, etc.
  • Entertain
    To interest and amuse
  • Connotation
    meaning suggested by a word beyond its definition, what a reader believes/feels the word means
  • Tone
    the author's attitude toward the subject matter
  • Idiom
    in language, a customary expression that cannot be taken literally, "She has rats in her hair."
  • 1st Person
    When the narrator is telling the story from his/her point of view, the word "I" is present outside of quotes
  • Fiction
    writing from a writer's imagination. It can be inspired by actual events or completely made up.
  • Definition Poem
  • Character
    A person in a story
  • Simile
    a comparison using like or as, "She stood in front of the altar, shaking like a freshly caught trout."
  • Conflict
    the struggle between opposing forces.
  • Antonyms
    Words that have opposite meanings
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