Literary Terms

1. the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
3. is a statement that seems contradictory but that actually expresses a deeper truth
4. refers to a particular arrangement of the words in a sentence
5. characters round characters
7. a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to emphasize a real situation
10. character flat character
11. refers to the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates in a particular story
14. a recurring theme, image or idea in a story
15. the emotional feeling attached to a word
17. the underlying meaning of literary work
18. something non human given human traits
20. an interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened before the particular point in a story
23. the struggle between two opposing forces
24. comparison of two unlike things using like or as

2. is a characters sudden flash or insight into a conflict or situation
6. a brief reference to a historical or literary figure , even or object
8. the main character the person for whom the reader roots
9. action the series of events leading up to the climax
12. the literal meaning of the word
13. a phrase that has a different meaning from what its word literally suggests
14. a comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as
16. person omniscient knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters
19. is an insight, based on details, about information that is not stated
21. action includes all the events occurring from the time of the climax to the end of the story
22. refers to the author's unique way of writing