Fiction Terminology

4. Attaching human traits or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or phenomena
5. The location AND time of a story
8. goals or dreams.
9. a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. Includes grammar, word choice and pronunciation
11. place, event, or literary
13. The feeling a reader experiences from a passage or text
15. Comparing two unlike things using like or as
17. of view The perspective from which the story is told.
18. metaphor A metaphor that lasts for multiple sentences, paragraphs, pages, or entire texts.

1. The sequence of events in a literary work, film, story, or other narrative.
2. The resistance the protagonist of
3. One subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits. A comparison without using like or as
6. When a object, sign, word, person represents an idea
7. The repetition of similar sounds in a sentence
10. The referring to a well-known
12. story finds in achieving
14. conversation between one or more people/ entities in a story
16. Descriptions of the senses to provide a “mental image” for the reader. Helps make abstract concepts concrete or tangible.