Literary Terms

4. conversation between two or more persons
5. Struggle or clash between opposing character, forces, or emotions
7. The character or force that blocks the protagonist
8. A figure of speech in which is similar to a simile, but does NOT use the words like or as to compare
10. Which nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
13. Series of related events that make up a story or drama
14. language that appeals to the senses
15. Individual in a story, poem, or play
16. a contrast or discrepancy between expectations for a situation and what is reality
17. using “like or as”
19. writer’s or speaker’s attitude

1. Person, place,things, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself
2. the central idea or insight revealed by work of literature
3. of Language Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else
6. the step by step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character
9. Vantage point from which a writer narrates, or tells, a story
10. The main character in fiction or drama
11. Where the story or play takes place
12. The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
18. emotions created by the text (How do we feel as the reader?)