Literary element

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Literary element

• their definitions

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antagonist
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a character or force in conflict with a main
character, or protagonist
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• Character

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a person or animal that takes part in a narrative
(story)
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• Characterization

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• The act of creating or developing a character
  through
• Appearance and personality
• Speech and behavior
• Thoughts and feelings
• Opinions of others

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• Climax

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the high point of interest or suspense in a
story also called the turning point
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• Conflict

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a problem or struggle between opposing forces
can be internal or external
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• Exposition

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Mr. Green the banker Mrs. Scarlet the loan
officer Where in the Living Room When at
midnight What fight with the candlestick
introduces the characters, setting, and basic
situation
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• Falling Action

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the events of a narrative following the climax,
leading to the resolution
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• Flashback

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a scene within a story that interrupts the
sequence of events to relate events that happened
earlier
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• Foreshadowing

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an authors use of hints or clues to hint about
future events
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• Inciting Incident/
• Initiating Event

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the first event it gets the ball rolling
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• Irony

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the opposite of what is meant a contradiction
between what happens and what is expected
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• Mood

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the feeling created in the reader by a literary
work or passage
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• Motive/
• Motivation

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the reason that explains a character's thoughts,
feelings, action, or speech
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• Plot

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the sequence of events in a narrative (story)
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• Point of View

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1st person, narrator is a character in the story
uses pronouns I, me, and myself
3rd person , the narrator is not a character in
the story uses pronouns he or she
3rd person, omniscient, an outsider who can enter
the mind/s of one or more characters
the perspective the narrator is telling the story
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protagonist
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the main character in a literary work
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• Rising Action

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the events that lead to the climax increasing
the the interest or suspense
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• Resolution

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the end or outcome of the conflict in a plot
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• Setting

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the time and place of the action of the story
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• Theme

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central message, concern, or purpose of a story
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• Alliteration

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• repetition of beginning
• consonant sounds

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• Allusion

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a reference to a well-known person, place, event,
literary work, or work of art
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• Figurative language

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• does not mean exactly what
• you say a meaning other
• than the ordinary meaning

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• Hyperbole

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• exaggeration that is obvious
• and intentional

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• Idiom

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• common expression that
• doesnt make sense if taken
• literally

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• Literal
• language

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• means exactly what you say

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• Metaphor

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• compares two unlike things
• without the use of like or as

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• Onomatopoeia

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• uses words that imitate
• sound

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• Personification

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• an object or nonhuman
• subject is given human
• characteristics

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• Simile

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• a direct comparison
• between two unlike things
• using the words like or as.

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• Symbol
• Symbolism

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• anything that stands for or
• represents something else

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• Tone

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the authors attitude toward the audience and
subject
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THE END
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Charactertraits
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the qualities, attitude, and values that a
character has or displays
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• Dialogue

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a conversation between characters.
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• Subplot

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a story in a novel or film that is separate from
the main story and is not as important as the
main story
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• Inference

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R E A D I N G
a conclusion drawn by the reader from reading
between the lines by using prior knowledge and
text
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• Parallel
• Episode

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certain elements of the plot are repeated
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• Imagery

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-pumpkin patch
-sun baked backs

• an author uses words and phrases to create
  mental images for the reader

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• Suspense

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a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the
outcome of events in a literary work
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Short story
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a brief work of fiction which presents a sequence
of events or plot
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fiction
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literary work based on the imagination, not fact