Literary Terms

1. The comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
4. Forces that drives characters to behave or act a certain way.
5. The three main genres are prose, poetry, and ____________.
8. A reference to a well known text, person, object, or event.
9. A struggle against other people or a force of nature.
11. What happens right before the problem in a story is solved.
13. Another word for a story.
14. The way an author reveals a character to the reader.
17. The lines characters speak to each other.
18. A speech given by a character who is alone on stage.
20. An extreme exaggeration.
21. The sequence of events in a story.
22. The bulk of the story where the characters work to resolve the problem but fail.
24. The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.
28. A word that imitates a sound.

2. A struggle that takes place in the character’s mind.
3. The events after the climax, leading to the solving of the problem.
6. A comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another.
7. A struggle with an opposing force.
10. Giving human like characteristics to inanimate objects.
12. The repetition of an initial consonant sound in neighboring words.
15. A poem that has 14 lines and ends in a couplet.
16. The ending of the story, when the conflict has been resolved and loose ends are tied up
19. Literary text that is written in standard sentence and paragraph form.
23. Qualities in people or characters that cannot be seen and make each individual unique.
25. The time and place of the action in a work of fiction.
26. The lesson about life the author wants the reader to learn.
27. Is written in lines and stanzas.