Literary Terms

3. character or voice who tells the story
5. perspective from which the story is told; first, second, third person
8. the techniques writers use to develop characters, including physical descriptions, speech, thoughts, actions, feelings, etc.
12. sequence or order of events in a story
13. central idea or message in a work of literature; a life lesson
14. character character who undergoes some sort of change by the end of a story
15. character who stays the same from start to finish
16. time and place of a story’s events
17. events are related through the eyes of only one character
18. action part of the plot in which complications develop and the conflict intensifies; build to the climax

1. the high point or turning point of a story
2. the final resolution or clarification of the plot
4. struggle of opposing forces that drives the story’s plot; internal or external
5. the main character in a story
6. the person or people intended to read a piece of writing
7. action the events occurring immediately after the climax that start to tie up loose ends
9. the character or force that goes against the protagonist
10. background information necessary to understand characters and their actions
11. narrator is all-knowing; can see into the minds of multiple characters