Literary Terms #1

2. Highest point of action in the story
5. The author TELLS the reader about a character.
8. Final outcome of the story when the conflict is resolved and the narrator ties up loose ends
10. The character struggles internally with his/her thoughts. (Man vs. Self)
14. The person telling the story
15. A character who changes from the beginning to the end of the story
16. Action Events start to fall into place
17. Character that goes against the main character
20. Time and place of a story
21. Imagined stories (not real)
22. a story of one’s life written by another person
23. A story of one’s ENTIRE life written by that person
24. The series of events in a story
25. writing that is based on facts, real events, and/or real people

1. The story is told by one of the characters in his or her own words; from the “I” perspective
3. The author SHOWS the reader what a character is like by what the character says, thinks, looks like, actions, and their effect on other characters.
4. The character struggles with an outside force Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature
6. Beginning of a story where characters and setting are introduced
7. A character that does NOT change in the story.
9. Main character of the story
11. Overall message of a story
12. A category of literature
13. Action, Events become more complicated; conflict is introduced
18. The narrator is telling the story from the outside; they usually refer to characters as “he” “she”
19. an account of a PART of one’s life written by that person, focusing on personal experiences and reflections