Literary Terms

5. The storyline or sequence of events
7. Using a word, phrase, or sentence more than once
8. Something that stands for or represents something else
9. Time, period, or place in which events in a story occur
10. The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
11. A group of lines that work together to express a central idea
13. The words spoken by characters
17. A comparison not using like or as
19. A sentence or phrase with words that start with the same letter or sound
21. A comparison using like or as
23. Ending, solution, answer to the conflict
26. Words that produce a set of mental pictures

1. A disagreement or clash between or among characters, a problem
2. Deliberate and obvious exaggeration
3. Giving human qualities to an object
4. of View: Somebody’s way of thinking about a subject, personal opinion, perspective
6. A group of words that help create rhythm and emphasis
12. The repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words
14. The story’s set up
15. The use of words that imitate a sound
16. The voice that narrates the poem
18. The most important or exciting event in a story
20. The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
22. A word or phrase that is different from the literal meaning of the words
24. The underlying meaning of a story
25. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words