Lit Terms-Easy

2. The use of overstatement for comic effect.EX:
4. Time and place in story.EX:afternoon in Colorado Springs
5. Giving human qualities to something not human.EX:
6. when the audience/reader knows something the characters don't
7. A sound written as a word.EX:
8. A situation that is the opposite of what we expect or of what seems appropriate.EX:
10. a character in the story is narrating the story(uses first person pronouns such as I,me,my,etc.)
12. General atmosphere created by the author's words. It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words.
13. Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time
14. Opponent of the protagonist.EX:
18. 2 or more words sharing the same beginning consonant sound(no vowels).EX:
20. Author's attitude towards the writing(the characters, the situation) and the readers
22. The form of spoken language specific to a particular region, social group.EX:
23. Hint or clue about what may happen later in the plot

1. A description of something as less than it is(opposite of exaggeration)EX:
3. Told by a narrator not a character in the story
9. exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally
11. The main character in a story;usually, but not always, the hero or good guy.EX:spiderman
15. Conversation between 2 or more characters
16. Comparison using "like: or "as".EX:
17. A contrast between what is said and what is actually meant.EX:
19. Comparison not using "like" or "as"
21. A taunting remark, generally ironic