Literary Terms

2. Words spoken by characters in a story.
5. Something that stands for something else.
6. Events are told from a person not involved in the story.
9. When the text provides hints about what will happen later in the story.
11. One of the individuals in a story.
12. The solution or outcome of the conflict.
15. When the sequence of a story gets interrupted, allowing readings to travel back in time and relive a key event in a character’s life.
16. The main idea or message of a story.

1. Events are told by one character, using pronouns “I” and “me”.
3. The events of a story and how they unfold.
4. The perspective from which the story is told.
7. Language that means something different from what the words are actually saying.
8. The way a reader is made to feel when reading a story.
10. When a story mentions characters, events, or language from other stories.
11. The main problem of a story.
13. The place and time in which a story happens
14. The way the narrator feels about the events, setting, and characters in the story.